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Quotes About Dying

Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror
~ William Shakespeare
The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.
~ Justine Larbalestier
They were, in short, dangerously unprepared for the rigors ahead, and they demonstrated their incompetence in the most dramatic possible way: by dying in droves. Six
~ Bill Bryson
I wrote you a song about a funny old world that's coming along. It seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn. It looks like it's dying and it's hardly been born.
~ Bob Dylan
And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.
~ Susanna Kaysen
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
~ T.S. Eliot
The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
~ T.S. Eliot
Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying
~ T.S. Eliot
I'm tired of being lost and I'm tired of dying, so I'm going to try something different this time.
~ Tad Williams
Love was truly a spectacular, sacred thing. Anthony knew that. He'd seen it every day of his childhood, every time his parents had shared a glance or touched hands. But love was the enemy of the dying man. It was the only thing that could make the rest of his years intolerable - to taste bliss and know that it would all be snatched away.
~ Julia Quinn
I never see the sick;" Yasmin says. "They visit me through the stains and marks they leave on the sheets, the alphabet of the sick and the dying … Sometimes the stains are rusty and old and sometimes the blood smells sharp as rain. You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside of bodies, the new girl says.
~ Junot Diaz
A good death, everyone agreed, to die at home in bed as Prudence Jaxon had. But Peter had been at her side through the final hours and knew how terrible it had been for her, how much she'd suffered. No, there was no such thing as a good death.
~ Justin Cronin
To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise.
~ Steve Bannon
The stars blink like a hairnet that was dropped / on a seat and now it is lying in the alley behind / the theatre where my play is echoed by dying voices.
~ Frank O'Hara
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
~ Frank Sinatra
Attention is living; inattention is dying. The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already. Dhammapada 21 We frequently hear it said that staying involved in life keeps you young.
~ Franz Metcalf
That's it. It's all going to end. The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The world was dying. Its gods had to die with it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
No job security," Denth said, leaning back in his chair. "The kinds of things we do, they tend to be dangerous and unpredictable. Our employers have a habit of dying off on us." "Though usually not from the chills," Tonk Fah noted. "Swords tend to be the method of choice.
~ Brandon Sanderson
To Szeth's people, a dying request was sacred.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.
~ Brandon Sanderson
That music the water makes," she said. "Isn't it the most wonderful sound ever?" "The most wonderful sound ever is the lamentations of my enemies, screaming my name toward the heavens with ragged, dying voices.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.
~ Henry David Thoreau