Dying Quotes - Page 30

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

War is death's feast.

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....and I am dying of love for her, I tell you! if you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her...It was the first ...time, daroga, the first time I ever kissed a woman.. Yes, alive... I kissed her alive.... And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead!

The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

I don't mean to say that you shouldn't take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it doesn't have the same hold as when you totally identify yourself as the body. To recognize the tenderness of mortality, the fragility of your life form and all life forms, including cosmic life forms, is to be humbled in a deep way that is actually enlivening.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

We are all dead men on leave.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.