Quotes About Dying

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

The truth comes only at the moment of dying.

On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

Her dread of fire was almost as strong as her fear of deep water. She wasn't so much afraid of dying as she was of pain. If they had to die, she just hoped it wouldn't hurt too much. Or for too long.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.

A choice between killing and dying is no choice at all. You have to be realistic about these things. b

And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them (now) into this nakedness together that is unforgivable.

In later years this is the one memory he wishes would go away and not come back. And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them (now) into this nakedness together that is unforgiveable. They do not forgive it. He turns away. This roaring air in his arms. She is released.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

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

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

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

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets.

Intentional dying is possible only for one who has attained a high degree of mastery over his physical functions, who knows how to project the principle of consciousness out of the physical body, who is able to tell, by certain inner signs, when his time has come, and who is able with full awareness and without artificial aids to let the life process come to a halt so far as this particular body is concerned.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I'll keep that in mind. I'll be of good cheer.

I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano. "No, I was dreaming," said Castillo.

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.