Quotes About Dying

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

There's no peace in dying, but there's peace when it's done.

All human beings face the same fundamental problems of loving and of suffering, of striving toward human aspirations for themselves and their children, of simply being and inevitably dying. These are the basic truths in all people, the common denominators of all cultures and all races and all ethnic categories. In

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

In life, some laugh, some cry, some live, some die. The choice is ours to crawl or to fly.

The dying light was in his hair, and his face was sweet with evening.

The resulting dehydration usually isn't troublesome, and actually can increase a dying person's comfort, by reducing the incidence of some uncomfortable symptoms such as vomiting, pain, or difficulty in breathing.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

Were it not for habit, life would seem delightful to beings constantly under threat of dying, in other words to all humankind.

So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeem, So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So easily destroy'd, and still destroys, In those who, when they may, accept not grace.

the water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying, is unholy, though it had been blessed by every saint in heaven; and the water which is found in the vessel of mercy is holy...

I'm not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died...And this you can know - fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

There's no beholden in a time of dying, said Wilson, and Sairy echoed him, Never no beholden. p. 145

The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting.

Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear, Black souls repent as hell draws near, " - Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows.

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.