Dying Quotes

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. View quote
Alexander Pope
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. View quote
Norman Mailer
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
I am dying with the help of too many physicians. View quote
Alexander the Great
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. View quote
George S. Patton
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. (Anthony Hopkins)
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. View quote
Daniel Webster
What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
Dying people often become childish. View quote
Georg Büchner
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. View quote
Philip Roth
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. View quote
Thom Gunn
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. View quote
Woody Allen
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. View quote
Mother Teresa
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. View quote
Anthony Trollope
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. (Henry Fielding)
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. View quote
Thomas Mann
He not busy being born is busy dying. View quote
Bob Dylan
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. View quote
John Steinbeck