D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain.”
Source: Metallic Dreams
“Dying is the last thing I will ever do.”
“Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!”
“Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about”
“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.”
Source: America
“Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.”
“Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation”
“Dying is the most intimate act we will undertake. It requires us to be intimate with ourselves, our bodies, our lives, and with the present moment - to reveal the parts we believe are difficult to love, the face beneath the mask we wear for the outside world, and the squishy parts that bear wounds and form scars. Everything else is a show. To be helped is to die a small death of the ego. To allow love in is an invitation to allow our messy human glory to take front stage, and let love pour into those places that have been beaten down by the ego and the outside world.”
Source: Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
“Dying is the only way/ For you to float free: / Nomonhan”
“Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.”
“Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other.”
Source: Devotion
“Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all.”
Source: Aftermath
“dying lasts forever until it stops”
Source: Obit
“Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.”
“Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.”
Source: Dexter by Design
“Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!”
“Dying may be the way of all things flesh, but living is too. Never let death shroud life with fear. Live beyond it, lad. Only then can the memory of those ye’ve loved and lost be rightly honored.”
Source: The Maiden Ship
“Dying may just be the best thing that ever happened to me.”
Source: Poe
“Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.”
Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
“Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch.
Living unhappily is something else.
So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Dying never having unleashed my imagination won’t be my first death.”
“dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred.”
“Dying of love for what does not love them.”
“Dying on the inside, but outside you're looking fearless”
“Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.”
“Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.”
“Dying people often become childish.”
“Dying provides us with the definitive answer to the question: Is there life after death?”
“Dying's a bitch, and I would know.”
Source: Back to Black
“Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.”
Source: Hamlet
“Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard.”
Source: Dance With the Devil
“Dying's not a nightmare.”
Source: The Nightmare
“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Dying she could handle. Dying without any answers seemed terribly cruel.”
Source: Caliban’s War
“Dying, she thought, is the only way out of what is happening to me.”
Source: If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
“Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.”
“Dying should not be a taxable event.”
“Dying shouldn't be so hard," he said. "It shouldn't be harder than living.”
Source: Fire Along the Sky
“Dying sometimes feels like the only way out. It’s that I-just-can’t-take-it-anymore feeling, and you’re tired of letting everyone down, so you just hit your breaking point and you want to die. I don’t mean that in a selfish way To me, suicide isn’t selfish. The people who say it is selfish early have never been suicidal, nor have they endured a mental illness.”
Source: Live for Me
“Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.
Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:
I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks; and I am ready to depart.”
“Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.”
“Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death.
Because this death releases you into real life.
You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.”
“Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?”
Source: Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible
“Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor, and for all one's efforts, it could be stolen in an instant.”
Source: Stolen Songbird
“Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.”
Source: Kinflicks
“Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.”
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“Dying was misery. Death was that period at the end of the sentence.”
Source: Perfectly Hopeless
“Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and the hills beyond.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.”
Source: Hemingway on War