Dying Quotes - Page 67

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."

We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.

But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

Sixty sluts, all of them dying from asphyxia after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippy cup.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.

I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.

If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense.

America is dying at 1 percent GDP.