Dying Quotes - Page 69

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; Ive got to be honest with you.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.

We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay.

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there.

Death frees the beast.

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.

She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.

My father, never chooses me for anything. If you needed a kidney and I offered him mine, well, pfft. Well, he'd take it 'cos he was dying. It's not that he doesn't love me, 'cos he does. It's just that special kind of love that feels like neglect.

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.

Like Trump`s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.