Dying Quotes - Page 23

There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.

I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

I will do my duty no matter what the price, I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice. Oh, and I don't want to die for you, but if dying is asked of me, I'll bear that cross of honor cause freedom don't come free.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret is not to be afraid of it—not to run away. The dying know that we are not God… All they ask is that we do not desert them.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.