Dying Quotes - Page 34

There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach another life - deeper, eternal, without death, deathless. So from so-called life, which is really nothing but dying, one has to pass through the door of death; only then does one achieve a life that is really existential and active - without death in it.

All religions are nothing but a science - or an art - to teach you how to die. And the only way to teach you how to die is to teach you how to live. They are not separate. If you know what right living is, you will know what right dying is. So the first thing, or the most fundamental thing is: how to live.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

He has gone over to the majority.

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

We live a dying dream, If you know what I mean...

Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him." And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well."

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.