Dying Quotes - Page 49

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

I think dying is the ultimate high...

You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?

At some point, we all have to let go.

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.

In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.

Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever.

I think you die the way you live.

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.