Dying Quotes - Page 66

Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

I learned to read but not to comprehend, and that might well have stood me in good stead, because what's there to understand, really? Everything I later learned to understand was unspeakably ugly anyway. In time, I bought some rulebooks and squeezed my way onto the honor roll, but, decades later, I've been pointed toward people described as "actively dying" who only now and then seemed to be going about it friskily.There was mostly no hustle I could notice.

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.

Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't dying. It only appears to be.

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

Death is the road to awe.

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.