Dying Quotes - Page 40

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.

When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.

I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.

Smoking is a dying habit.

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.