Dying Quotes - Page 22

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

We grow to heaven. We don't go to heaven.

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.