Dying Quotes - Page 9

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.

Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

I don't understand how people can make such a fuss about people that are happy and in love, when there's people dying of hunger and war and they don't even notice that. I really don't understand that. That makes me so angry!

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?