Quotes About Dying

If life is worth living for so is it worth dying.

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

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

and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.

It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.

The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself.

Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded.

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

Tell everyone loud and clear, I have as much enthusiasm for leaving Madrid as I do for dying.

Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, "Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!

I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.

Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, "Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!" Sophie snorted.

I feel ill. I'm going to bed, where I may die. - Howl

Death did not frighten her. In those years she had tended the dying, witnessed their demise, and laid out the dead. Death by sickness. Death in childbirth. Death by accident. Death by malice, once or twice. Death as the welcome visitor to great age.

Crowds came to form a shield against their own dying. To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual, to face dying alone.

What people look for in a dying friend is a stubborn kind of gravel-voiced nobility, a refusal to give in, with moments of indomitable humor.

Crowds came to form a shield against their own dying. To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual, to face dying alone. Crowds came for this reason above all others. They were there to be a crowd.

He rolled his eyes, which buoyed me with relief. The dying don't bother with sarcasm.

Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

And his rage rises to a white heat against certain nobles of Treves who, after the city had been burned and sacked thrice, could still ask the emperors for circuses. "Where would you hold these public spectacles?" he asks, – "Over the graves and ashes, the bones and blood of the dead?" In another passage he gives us briefly the conclusion of the whole matter: "The whole Roman world is in misery and yet is luxurious. . . . It is dying and it laughs.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.