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Quotes About Dying

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Timequake
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
~ J. C. Ryle
Lord, here is your servant, Redeemer, made with love and bound by your grace. Thank you for your mercy." (said by character Lace Kavanaugh over a dying dog).
~ Jan Karon
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
~ e. e. cummings
i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile
~ E.E. Cummings
death,as men call him,ends what they call men —but beauty is more now than dying's when
~ E.E. Cummings
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity - which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I do not mean that the adult Martians are unnecessarily or intentionally cruel to the young, but theirs is a hard and pitiless struggle for existence upon a dying planet, the natural resources of which have dwindled to a point where the support of each additional life means an added tax upon the community into which it is thrown.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a lawyer and you know the game. You're my pal and the best pal I've had, Jim, and you'll do it for me. The dying man looked
~ Edgar Wallace
A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947
~ Edna Ferber
I told you to stop, dammit! Nigger, all I wanted was for you to stop. Augustus heard him and he wanted to say that that was the biggest lie he had ever heard in his life, but he was dying and words were precious.
~ Edward P. Jones
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
~ Alexander Herzen
I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.
~ Alfred Bester
I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
~ Ian Botham
I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.
~ James Cromwell
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
~ Polly Toynbee
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.
~ Maria Shriver
Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.
~ Dean Ornish
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
A farm without stock, a home without children. The world here was dying.
~ Rene Denfeld
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
~ Richard Barnfield
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
~ Richard Baxter
You surrender your need to control your partner, and finally the relationship blossoms. Yet each time it is a choice—and each time it is a kind of dying.
~ Richard Rohr
Outside of time and space, he looked down upon the earth and saw that each fleeting day was a day of dying, that men died slowly with each passing moment as much as they did in war, that human grief and sorrow were utterly insufficient to this vast, dreary spectacle.
~ Richard Wright