Quotes About Dying

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

I preach as a dying man to dying men.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

There is no honour in dying of something. I would rather die for.For love, for respect, for peace.

We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

and sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

And more than anything, we are a pretty awkward society when it comes to talking about dying. It's supposed to happen offstage, in hospitals, and no one wants to dwell on it too much.

There is no place more perfectly lonely than an airport at night when you fear someone you love is dying and you're rushing to see that person.

All the pains and aches man feels in his life are but so many singultus morientis naturœ—groans of a dying nature; they tell him his dissolution is at hand.

The more our life has been corrupted with hypocrisy and unfaithfulness, the weaker our faith will be in a dying hour.

Simply put, war restores in man the belief that there are some things worth fighting and dying for; things like love, liberty, and faith.

He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying. Murder, accident, overdose - it happened in many ways, but the end was the same. Something sad and confusing left behind. Only the shape of life, only the empty outline.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying. - from the story "De Composition