Top 1200 People Who Are Dying Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

I loved our music discussion. I live for discussions like that. It's my favorite thing because it means that people care about music, and actually have an opinion. I feel like it's dying. Everyone is just really like, they take a step back, but to actually have conviction about what's good and bad: love it.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

If I show up without brows, it means I'm sick, I'm dying, or both my arms are broken.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

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

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!

Podcasts can entertain you in a traffic jam and stop you dying when driving a bit tired.

There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer

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

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

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

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time.

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.

We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned non-people living in faraway places such as Zaire and Guatemala, there was no terrorism. When the weak attacked the powerful, spectacularly on 9/11, there was terrorism.

I always liked acting, but it was not that I was dying to become an actress. It just happened, and I am enjoying it.

I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

But how do we even get to the land of the dead?” I asked. “I mean…without dying.

I bet dying vultures have lots of awkward moments with their friends. - Guy Endore

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

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

For years, people always say, "Ah, what about the dunk. It's still two points." But it energizes a team. If you're down and you get a monster dunk, everybody gets psyched. "Oh yeah, let's go, let's go." So it was dying down a little bit and guys, I think, they took it upon themselves. They got energy on it and started trying different stuff.

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

I just didn't want a musical side of me being prosperous but I'm dying on the inside.

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.