Quotes About Dying

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.

Writing implies faith in someone listening,/ different in content but not need/ from the child who cries in the night./ Making is an attack on dying, on chaos,/ on blind inertia, on the second law/ of thermodynamics, on indifference, on cold,/ on contempt, on the silence/ that does not follow the chord resolved,/ the sentence spoken, but the something/ that cannot be said.

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't. Looking at it doesn't suck the way you might think it would, given all the dying-girl-stares-at-heaven possibilities. I don't think of the sky as any kind of heaven item. I think of it as a bunch of gases and faraway echoes of things that used to be on fire

The world's an orphans' home. Shallwe never have peace without sorrow?without pleas of the dying forhelp that won't come. Oquiet form upon the dust, I cannotlook and yet I must.

The world's an orphan's home. Shall we never have peace without sorrow? without pleas of the dying for help that won't come? O quiet form upon the dust, I cannot look and yet I must. If these great patient dyings - all these agonies and wound bearings and bloodshed- can teach us how to live, these dyings were not wasted.

I'm not afraid of death, just of dying.

Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.

Isn't it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it's dying?

Fear of death is worse than dying.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

The new songs leaned heavily on mother and home (and the leaving of same), lonely wandering in the cruel, cruel world, and dying wishes. The songs also owed much to the first great American tragedy, the Civil War.

body, will be able to cherish freedom, revere the rights of others, and practice its highest talent, love, when the earth is sterile from man-made poisons, the air tainted, and the race sick and dying.

The humans hadn't gotten a lot of sleep last night, from the crowding and the strong possibility of dying.

One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.