Quotes About Dying

Thou dirgeOf the dying year, to which this closing nightWill be the dome of a vast sepulcher.

An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king.

I'm sorry we cannot help you get home to your dimension. We have a pressing mission to get cough-syrup to a dying planet.

Reborn here in this grubby old hospital, surrounded by the sick and the dying, people who deserve a second chance far more than he does. But it isn't the pink-and-white cooing kind of rebirth. It's more like being wrenched from a warm, dark, comfortable place and forced out into a bright, frightening world where nothing is certain.

Of course, we all know that dying, rising again, Christ in me, hidden in God, seated in heaven are metaphors—the use of common language to grasp the uncommon, a reality too deep and thick for conventional vocabulary. Following Jesus is an inside-out transformation so thorough that dying and coming back to life is the only adequate way to put it.

One cannot have contentment in the Christian life without the darkness. Dying is the only path to resurrection, and that is the only way of knowing God. There is no shortcut. Jesus himself is our model for this.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Josephís sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.