Dying Quotes - Page 45

Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.

We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

I was never born, I didnt die.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Some people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die.

Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned.

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.

So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.

Everything in the world finds peace - eventually.

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly. "No! Of course not!" "No, not really? You really didnt attack him?" "Emmett!" I protested. "Aw, what a waste. And here you're probably the one person who could take him- since he can't get into your head to cheat- and you had a perfect excuse too. I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage.

I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me

I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

Educate yourself on what's going on around the world where children are dying. Educate yourself on what's going on in Africa.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.