Dying Quotations | Page 4

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito] Mussolini, and Pol Pot. We're the book burners.

A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

The old echoes are long in dying.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

Death is the gate of life.

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

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

Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Shot through my chest and up around my shoulder and down my spine. I thought 'Oh, Lord.' I thought I was dying. I bent over and looked, and I was standing on my own titty.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?

the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.

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

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Ni muer ni viu ni no guaris, Ni mal no·m sent e si l’ai gran, Quar de s’amor no suy devis, Ni no sai si ja n’aurai ni quan, Qu’en lieys es tota le mercés Que·m pot sorzer o decazer.” “Not dying nor living nor healing, there is no pain in my sickness, for I am not kept from her love. I don’t know if I will ever have it, for all the mercy that makes me flourish or decay is in her power.

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I got into a lot of trouble when I was young, from making two films with James Dean, watching him work and then him dying and thinking I could turn down work. There was a big difference, he was a star and I wasn't. So I got in a lot of trouble and was essentially banned from Hollywood.

We grow to heaven. We don't go to heaven.

Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.

I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off [tour], I was just dying to start recording, because it was on my mind: 'I've got to make another record now.' And I was totally excited.

When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

Howl’s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, “Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!

Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

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

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.

The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...

Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough

It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Sometimes living takes more courage than dying.

We've been here till after dark on Christmas Eve more than once. We've been here till after dark on New Year's Eve more than once. People don't stop dying for holidays.

We ran into it three or four weeks ago, but it's pretty much dying out now.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

The fact that people are dying should be catalyst enough to scale up relief efforts and put pressure on aid agencies.

The real issue here is why are some people becoming ill and even dying after they are subjected to gene therapy. Until we get the answer to that question, we ought to have at least a partial moratorium on some of these experiments.

The people know they won't be able to spend Christmas in peace because their children are dying of hunger,

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.

I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

I don't want to say, 'This is where I'm going to be in five years and I'm going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms,

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

Liberal proponents of homosexual 'marriage' flatter themselves by casting their agenda as part of a modern civil rights struggle, ... But there is nothing noble about advancing the final frontier of a sexual revolution that has resulted in tens of thousands of men getting sick or dying young because they engage in homosexual perversions.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring

Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would be de-militarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation of the people.

Somebody is dying of anthrax and would like to be immune right now,

Shane was sitting right outside the bar watching. But as soon as he took off I knew something was wrong because the snowmobile didn't have enough power, it was like it was dying or something.

She is one of a dying breed. I love her very much.

She is dying to come and I think she's actually going to be here at the end of the month.