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Quotes About Dying

Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love… love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.
~ J.R. Ward
I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
I'm dying to do a masala Bollywood film with typical song and dance. But having said that, my character in the film should have her own point of view. I won't play a role who has no brains.
~ Sayani Gupta
It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.
~ Barry Marshall
Celebrity is this thing that's unattainable. This unattainable lifestyle. This unattainable social status. But there's nothing more commonplace than dying from hot sauce.
~ Sean Evans
He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.
~ Nick Harkaway, Tigerman
may ever in prosperity if life ever were in my favour, in my last dying will with a wish; may my bowls never empty. No matter what it is, whether it's a bowl of Ramen noodles or a bowl of meth or a bowl of Diamonds. May my bowls never empty in death -CRYSTALLINE DOLLMETH
~ TALESA MARIE CHARTRAND
There was a tiny silence, only the soft hum of the fluorescence. I thought of her in the cold ruined house, with night birds keening above her and rain gentle all around, dying of breathing
~ Tana French The Likeness
When we disconnect from the body, we are pulling away from the energetic expression of our being that connects us with all of life. By imagining a great tree uprooted from earth, we can sense the unnaturalness, violence, and suffering of this severed belonging. The experience of being uprooted is a kind of dying.
~ Tara Brach
In living we die, in dying we live.
~ Ted Dekker
You're doing the right thing, letting the process happen. He's not in pain. It's what we see in dying that is uncomfortable to us.
~ Ted Kerasote
You saw what network support did for Strikeforce when Showtime came aboard. You saw what Spike TV did for the UFC when they came aboard, because the UFC was dying before Spike came along.
~ Frank Shamrock
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Even though the dying was still going on, they had to force themselves to think about it like the Irish potato famine, or like what had happened to the peoples of the New World when Columbus had arrived and infected them with a slew of deadly diseases. Regret, even horror were appropriate. But detachment was necessary.
~ Neal Stephenson
I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living
~ Ned Vizzini
They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it's just like Humble said: I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living. I was afraid before, but I'm afraid even more now that I'm a public joke.
~ Ned Vizzini
Her father was dying, and he wanted her forgiveness.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.
~ Wil S. Hylton
What's wrong with you?" he demanded. A faint, taunting smile curved her soft mouth. "I'm dying. I think that's plain enough even for you to see.
~ Christine Feehan
Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Medication and forgiveness can make for joyous moments with the dying—it
~ Christopher Moore
There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE.
~ Umberto Eco
Each wave breaking against the cliff would believe it was dying for the good of the sea; it would never occur to it that, like thousands of waves before and after, it had only been brought into being by the wind.
~ Vasily Grossman
You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Everyone has his dream; I would like to live till dawn, but I know I have less than three hours left. It will be night, but no matter. Dying is simple. It does not take daylight. So be it: I will die by starlight
~ Victor Hugo