Dying Quotes - Page 5

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Get my swan costume ready.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine."

We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.