Dying Quotes - Page 24

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.

The moment you stop learning you're dying.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution,and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you." "Thanks.You're very kind.

Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.