Quotes About Dying

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven.

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: "The 'Machine politicians' have shown their colors... I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who think of nothing higher than their own interests, and I feel for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

The breath of dying lilies haunted the twilight air.

Yet the manner of death he fears does not sound bad to me; to me it seems like a decent, clean way of taking off, surely better than the slow rot in a hospital oxygen tent with rubber tubes stuck up your nose, prick, asshole, with blood transfusions and intravenous feeding, bedsores and bedpans and bad-tempered nurses' aides—the whole nasty routine to which most dying men, in our time, are condemned.

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day — by dying.

So slowly, slowly rase she up,And slowly she came nigh him,And when she drew the curtain by—"Young man, I think you're dyin'."

Bowing to this reality, the dying man handed Agrippa the symbol of his authority:

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.

Fall is nature's grace time; giving you a chance to put things in order, for the dying. And so, when you put things in order, you sort out all you must do … and all you have not done. It is a time for remembering … and regretting, and wishing you had done some things you have not done … and said some things you had not said. I

there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace

The sale wasn't seen as just a transition in ownership regimes; it was a dying elite handing over power to an ascendant one

I have discovered your great wound. You are dying from this flower blooming on your side.

in my opinion something has been achieved which so closely approximates the truth that it might reassure us both a little and make our living and dying easier

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

And so we sat there in the sickening sillage of the truth, neither of us angry, or upset, just muddling through this shared sorrow, this collective pity. And as much as I wanted to sound my tragic wail over the rooftops, and let go of the day, and crawl back toward that safe harbor, and give in to the dying of the light, and to do all of those unheroically injured things that people never write poems about, I didn't.

a doctor in Manhattan saved a dying man for free.

Truman seethed. "I put it to you," he railed during a campaign stop in Indianapolis during his famous come-from-behind reelection campaign in 1948. "Is it un-American to visit the sick, aid the afflicted or comfort the dying? I thought that was simple Christianity!

The rain was that endless, gray, pounding kind of rain that makes your house feel cold and sad even if your mother's spirit isn't dying upstairs.

We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real.