Dying Quotes - Page 62

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

There are very diminishingly few United States senators who you would like always want to have dinner with. It used to be in the Senate there were an awful lot of them. There are very few of them today that you would just be dying to go out and have dinner with. John McCain is someone I`d have dinner with seven nights a week.

When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

Is the labyrinth living or dying?

Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment.

And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.

It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?