Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else. Votes: 4
Morrie SchwartzIn life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse. Votes: 3
Faye KellermanI'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore. Votes: 3
Katherine Anne PorterNothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it. Votes: 3
Elizabeth GaskellI'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away. Votes: 3
Thomas Haynes BaylyPatriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Votes: 2
Bertrand RussellMy uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. Votes: 2
Rodney DangerfieldDo not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. Votes: 2
Dylan ThomasDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Votes: 2
Norman CousinsEach night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. Votes: 2
Mahatma GandhiIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. Votes: 2
George S. PattonLife isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. Votes: 0
John Greenleaf WhittierIf you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWhile his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life. Votes: 0
Stephanie Bedwell-GrimeThe world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing. Votes: 0
George Dana Boardman PepperThe country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms. Votes: 0
Corneliu Zelea CodreanuIt is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherFor each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. Votes: 0
Arthur O'ShaughnessyIf it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying? Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreIn a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
Roswell Dwight HitchcockHow can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?
William Butler Yeats... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.
Hubert Selby, Jr.To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
Francis QuarlesIf a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.
Richard StraussLife has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?
Tracey Garvis-GravesSome people are scared of dying. Never be afraid to die. Because you're born to die.
Walter BreuningDying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.
Charles BukowskiIn the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.
Daniel WallaceHe wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.
Herbie BrennanIt is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.
Norman BarrettEvery atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.
Sonya HartnettLike a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
Chief SeattleHonest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.
Jeanie (Jenny) CameronEveryone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
Lauren DeStefanoMore than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.
Robert ThurmanDon't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
Bernie SiegelPeople is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.
Dorothy RichardsonSomeone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
E. L. DoctorowFor you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.
Kathe KollwitzTruth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.
Matthew ArnoldI think I'm dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.
Elizabeth ChandlerToo many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.
Estelle GettyThis is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
Jacqueline CareyEveryone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer
Kyle MasseyOnce upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.
Laini TaylorYou made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.
Matthew Tobin AndersonI'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
Abel FerraraI'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
Ben LernerThere is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.
Dale SpenderI think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.
Daniel JohnsI'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!
J. K. RowlingIt's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)
Sherrilyn KenyonHistory is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
Simone de BeauvoirDon't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
Zora Neale HurstonThe crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born
Antonio GramsciWhen you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.
Dennis PragerThe question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.
Don DeLilloImmortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
HeraclitusDo the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.
James StockdaleTime and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
John DrydenThe Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny"¦ Alright, it's a little funny.
John GreenRock & roll is dying. Itâs frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.
Kurt CobainWithout question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.
Rebecca MaderThat's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.
Tiffanie DeBartoloTis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
William Makepeace ThackerayThe old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters
Antonio GramsciIf you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
Cyndi LauperIs Art worth dying for? Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
George ClooneyDying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.
Julius LesterMaybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
Muriel BarberyDying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?
Wyndham LewisWhich do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.
Gerald MorrisSometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.
John CaudwellIf not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.
Mark GatissDON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
Terry PratchettThe hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob DylanIt's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.
Christoph WaltzNot all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.
Cormac McCarthyWhere are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine....
Jim MorrisonThings change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.
Lauren OliverI don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry
Michael LandonBig part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.
Peter ThielBe careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.
Robert BreaultThere is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...
Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonIt is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
Bill VaughanA charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.
Charles WesleyThe California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.
Jack PaarBut you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.
Jennifer EcholsYou see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.
Jigdral Yeshe DorjeThis is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
Mitch AlbomPeople's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before dying. The process is called "Living
Terry PratchettThe world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.
David LettermanIt is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellBecause there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
John GreenThere should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.
Rachel Naomi RemenI'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
Stephen MalkmusNothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
Thomas PaineWe're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.
Heather GudenkaufA soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
James F. CooperFor the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free
John G. LakeIt was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
John GreenBut the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying.
J.A. RedmerskiIt is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying....
John AshberyThe world is full of promise and places and people and experiences that are dying to be explored.
Kris RadishIt is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.
Mark RuffaloI said, "I just want to know you and then disappear." She said, "Knowing me does not mean dying.
RumiThe ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.
Sylvia EarleIn the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.
Wolfgang HildesheimerMost of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.
George CarlinLife is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.
Heather DorffLet the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.
Joanne NovaGossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.
Mason CooleyThere were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.
P. C. CastThe human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.
Tennessee WilliamsIn the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.
Walter ScottThink what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.
Eiji YoshikawaMarriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.
Joey RamoneUnbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.
Aiden Wilson TozerIn cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.
Don DeLilloBecause to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape
Ellen HopkinsGrowing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
John MellencampWhat the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos) Dying's easy. It's living that's hard. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn KenyonThere's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
William GoldingHuman beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?
Yukio MishimaAlmost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard. Votes: 4 Jennifer L. Holm
Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die. Votes: 2 George A. Romero
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. Votes: 4 Umberto Eco
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. Votes: 1 Christian Dior
Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief. Votes: 4 Marc Forster
I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me Votes: 3 Ian Botham
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve. Votes: 1 Jonathan Sacks
But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid. Votes: 1 Robert Falcon Scott
My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat. Votes: 1 Chumlee
I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying. Votes: 4 Patti Davis
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Votes: 4 Langston Hughes
There's no greater misfortune than dying alone. Votes: 3 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die. Votes: 2 George A. Romero
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Votes: 2 Mark Twain
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church. Votes: 3 Alan Hirsch
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. Votes: 2 Howard Thurman
I'm a nurse," I said, feeling huffy"I help sick people." "So you can stop the diseases?" he asked"Not really. I mostly help the people who are already dying, trying to make their last days comfortable." "You help people die," he mused"That sounds quite sinister, and that's coming from someone who drinks blood. Votes: 1 Delilah S. Dawson
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare. Votes: 1 James E. Faust
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Votes: 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed. Votes: 3 John M. Gottman
There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer. Votes: 4 Siddhartha Mukherjee
At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them? Votes: 3 Sogyal Rinpoche
I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way. Votes: 4 Nick Nolte
I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living. Votes: 1 Shelley Fabares
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God. Votes: 3 Adoniram Judson
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it. Votes: 1 Sarah Polley
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself. Votes: 1 Steven Amsterdam
What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did? Votes: 2 Tim O'Brien
I don't want to die with regrets. I like living and experiencing and feeling the whole lot. Votes: 1 Nick Love
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Votes: 2 Gustave Flaubert
I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times! Votes: 1 Jonathan Banks
Johnny 'Fairplay' Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of 'Survivor' ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out. Votes: 3 Jenna Morasca
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies. Votes: 0 Clarence Thomas
My brother is a screenwriter. He likes to say, 'I like to take on a genre when it's dying, because then people are ready for you to shake it up a little bit.' Votes: 1 Mark Waters
To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment. Votes: 3 H. E Davey
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either. Votes: 1 Stella Young
My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream. Votes: 1 Karlie Kloss
I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. Votes: 1 Laurence Housman
Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.... Votes: 2 Michael Jackson
Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms. Votes: 1 Jon Katz
Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets. Votes: 5 Anthony Liccione
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. Votes: 3 Friedrich Durrenmatt
My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life. Votes: 3 Lisa Kristine
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. Votes: 1 Rodney Dangerfield
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. Votes: 1 George Clooney
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies. Votes: 1 Joy Williams
To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister. Votes: 1 Amy Heckerling
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager. Votes: 1 Robbie Coltrane
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself. Votes: 1 Steven Amsterdam
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person. Votes: 1 Rosecrans Baldwin