Dying Quotes - Page 27

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of you now? Will he make you into a rat's liver? Will he make you into an insect's leg?' Tzu-Lai replied, 'The universe gave me my body so I may be carried, my life so I may work, my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. . . . If I regard the universe as a great furnace and creation as a master foundryman, why should anywhere I go not be all right?'

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.

When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.

If you are not growing, you are dying.

The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.