Top 1200 People Who Are Dying Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am, lying on a cold pavement and it is not the dying I care about; it has no more meaning this morning that it did yesterday. But never again will I see those I love, and if that is what dying is about then it really is the tragedy they say it is.

Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint spark of herself, the little girl holds on to the idea. Even a rag doll has more life than does a dying child.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.

America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.

People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again

I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more.

When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.

Rajinikanth is humility personified. He's a huge star in India, and people are dying to just see him on the screen.

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.

I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.

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

People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive thing about 'As I Lay Dying' was the way it gave rich voices to the poor.

For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

John Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is very important to me as an influence. When I didn't know how to start Mr. Splitfoot, I just wrote the first line of As I Lay Dying instead and then continued on. It's dissolved in the text now, but it helped me start.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

I'm not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn't in this world as believers, it's in the eternity. To be absent of body is to be present with the Lord, so they are dying for something that is real and will last forever.

Everything kills you, you're dying everyday. You're either dying everyday or you're living every day and I'm living everyday.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn't ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come.

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.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

I will never forget that there are millions of other people who would be dying to be in my position. I’m not going to be an actress who doesn’t appreciate what she has.

Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; they're just kind of reinventing themselves.'

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

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

If you're at the top, people worship you wherever you go. But when you're dying down, it's difficult to sell tickets!

High school is just like glee, a bunch of people dying of drug overdose.

Why wouldn't I like to walk into a room full of people who are dying to hear everything I say?

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to put people who are sick and dying with cancer and are being helped with marijuana if they have multiple sclerosis - the federal government is going in there and overriding state laws and putting people like that in prison.

I think the personal and psychological aspects of war remain the same. War is about killing and dying. A man or woman stands at the post and there is a very real possibility of dying in the next five minutes. Whether he dies or not depends partly on him and partly on luck, and yet he must continue to function.

We also have people dying longer, we are able to keep people alive without much quality of life in many cases. We haven't done a great job of making healthspan match up with lifespan, which is both miserable and unbelievably costly - and frightening.

If people dying as a consequence of the implementation of measures cannot count as evidence that the legislation has detrimental effects, what would?

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

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

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

I was dying to start shooting for 'Paiyya.' I had worn no good clothes for months, and I was dying to wear good clothes. And, for 'Paiyya,' they gave me eight clothes to change in a day!

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?".

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.