Top 1200 People Who Are Dying Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

I've certainly never been dying to go to England my entire life.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding.

If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.

The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.

So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it?

Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name! Gaara: I couldn't care less.

Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great metal plates to their destination. People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned work place, imagine having this as your only option in life.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!

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

Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....and I am dying of love for her, I tell you! if you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her...It was the first ...time, daroga, the first time I ever kissed a woman.. Yes, alive... I kissed her alive.... And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead!

He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

Today, they make films where you have to sit for an hour and a half and watch somebody in the process of dying and, for me, that's rather depressing. Films, in the good old days of the golden age of Hollywood, used to want to inspire people and give them uplift. You're paying good money to see a film, and you don't want to leave depressed!

This concept of turning dying into flying is a metaphor for my basic life principle.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.

I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, not ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose and at least tried to make a difference in this world.

I don't have thoughts of an afterlife. I think dying is like when you swat a fly - it's over.

We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they've had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really, no text is worth dying for; that is our message to young people. And this is such a new phenomenon when you look at the number of texts and how they've increased exponentially in just the last few years.

I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself.

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.

The only thing worse than dying is living a boring life.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.

You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.

The moment of Jesus' greatest glory was on the cross, dying as our substitute.

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.