Best Dying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.”

Years Lasts Lost Dying Terrible Ten Seven Eight Closest Getting Old Terrible Things

Author:Norman MacCaig

“There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.”

Want Needs Reason Actors Dying Scripts Filmmaker No Reason Great Actors Great Film

Author:Tobey Maguire

“Because dying for God is a higher pleasure... than living without Him.”

God Pleasure Dying Higher

Author:Noah Weinberg

“The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.”

Ifs Ideas Whole Space Race Dying Divine Pure Eternal Essence Jew Flames Divinity Life And Death Entity Judaism Integrating Exaltation Space Time Defying

Author:Kadmi Cohen

“People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.”

People Years Left Dying

Author:Oliver Platt

“By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?”

Years Looks Term Space Risk Doors Dying Safety Miles Flying Flight Planes Airline Passengers Space Shuttle Fatality

Author:Burt Rutan

“Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.”

People Moments Born Deals Situation Dying Rehearsal

Author:Michael J. Fox

“If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.”

Ifs Want Dying Regret Calling Talk To Me Want Him

Author:Johnny Ramone

“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”

Feels Funny Lying Psychology Crazy Dying Stupid Health Silly Wellness Someday Hospitals Nuts Health And Wellness World Health

Author:Redd Foxx

“The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.”

Ifs Matter Light Happiness Successful Dying Buddhism Enlightenment Prison Contact Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stage performing is a dying art form.”

Art Form Stage Dying Performing

Author:Ronnie Spector

“I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.”

Felt Dying Quitting Ballet Dying Inside

Author:Zoe Saldana

“American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.”

Should War Three Boys Dying News Congress Resolution Invoke

Author:Evan Thomas

“It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying.”

Hurt Dying It Hurts

Author:Herve Villechaize

“I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.”

Crazy Dying Missing Fronts Cameras Get Back

Author:Holly Valance

“Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?”

Way Has Beens Able Asks Force Audience Dying Messages Dignity Theme Invites Ireland Jury

Author:Julie Walters

“To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.”

People Knows Ideas Shows Happens Lost Watches Honest Dying Tvs Scene Shots Scripts Disappointment Being Honest No Idea Hawaii Fanatics

Author:Sonya Walger

“You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict”

People World Looks War States Dying Arms Conflict War Of The Worlds Civil War Vietnam World War Ii World War I People Dying

Author:Juan Williams

“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.”

“Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.”

Love Humans May Mean Soul Love Is Dying Divine Source Eternal Hatred Universal Bounds One Love Divine Love Particles God Is Love Human Love Alone In Love Love Is Life

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.”

Wisdom Past Wise Dying Goes On Clever

Author:Rajneesh

“The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.”

Born Dying Diversity Arise Symptoms Morbid Knowledge And Power Great Diversity

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.”

Knows Death Lost Dying Havens Hiding Divides

Author:Vance Havner

“I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.”

Character Dying Lead Characters Henry V

Author:Ted Lange

“The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.”

Stories Hurt Dying Internet Cables

Author:Leslie Moonves

“If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.”

Ifs World Children Country Would Be Responsibility Company Dying Determination Investing Very Good Developing Japan Good Business Muster Sense Of Responsibility Xerox

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Cajun culture is dying.”

Culture Dying Cajuns

Author:Michael K. Williams

“Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.”

People Thinking Humans Kind Problem Dream Courses Heaven Race Doubt Sky Dying Awful Human Race No Doubt Afterlife Pie

Author:N. T. Wright

“The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.”

Should Years Three Audience Dying Series Comedian Three Years Frequency Optimum

Author:Alexei Sayle

“Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.”

Knows Men Sometimes Night Dark Powerful Growing Minutes Dying Ordinary Monsters Weather Growing Old Ordinary Man Powerful Man

Book:Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad

Source: Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad

“However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At the heart of this issue was my belief that our government is simply out of control. Now, to me, this was about a federal agency’s dangerous response to a situation that could have resulted in a catastrophe, and that means people dying and people being shot, kind of comparable to what we saw in Waco, Texas.”

People Men Want Heart Kind Mean Government Belief Situation Issues Saws Dying Dangerous Shots Response Agency Texas Catastrophe Mean People Nevada People Dying Standoffs

Author:Sean Hannity

“Falling in love is dying by the cupid's bow.”

Fall Love Is Dying Falling In Love Bows Cupid

Author:Michael Bassey

“The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.”

Want Made Worst Dying Easier Devil Convince Worst Things

Author:Jackie Pullinger

“When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.”

People Form Culture Dying Not Afraid Insecure New Cultures Old Culture

Author:Rudolf Bahro

“I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.”

People Ends Feelings Dream Care Age Life Is Dying Constant Hearing Your Dreams Transient

Author:Abraham Verghese

“Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'”

World Has Beens Culture Language Cities Century Dying Equal Celebrate Labels Attachment Fierce Stereotype Resent Civics Reflexes Calcutta Dysfunction Ferocity

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.”

Order Dying Ignorance Is Bliss If Ignorance Is Bliss

Author:Victor Lewis-Smith

“Dying well is part of living well and one day our society will surely recognize that. But I suppose we'll only know that we've reached that promised land on the day that the President of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society begins his address to the Annual General Meeting with the words: 'Tremendous news for the society. It's been our most successful year ever. So successful, indeed, that we now have no members at all.”

Knows Years Wells President Successful Land Dying One Day Members News Meetings Addresses Our Society Annuals Live Well Euthanasia Promised Land Dying Well

Author:Victor Lewis-Smith

“At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Death Choices Existence Dying Birth Meaningless Death And Dying Distaste

Author:Jean-Pierre Melville

“You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.”

Self Death Alive Dying Husband Complaining Unhappy Death And Dying Self Indulgent

Author:Gena Rowlands

“For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.”

Ifs Feels Dies Growing Dying Creating Exciting Stagnant Enriching

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

Facts Spiritual Science Death Desire Religion Fall Psychology Atheism Dying Strength Illusion Atheist Agnostic Psychiatry Atheistic Religion In Society

Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.”

Knows Wanted Night Dies Sleep Sea Dying Baby Terrible Do You Know Pigs Shut Up One Night Never Sleep

Author:Yara

“I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.”

Ifs World Sometimes Pain Death Behinds Dying Tough Reluctant

Author:Alexander Dolgun

“Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.”

Difficult Impossible Dying

Author:Jane Swisshelm

“I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.”

Want I Can Ideas Wanted Sides Animal Dying Bears Balance Entrepreneur Abandoned Walkers Vets

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.”

“The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.”

Way Love Life Inspirational Giving Death Goal Taken Our Lives One Thing Dying Prove Aging Worthy Live Life Inspirational Love Proven

Author:Forrest Church

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”

Ideas Death Dies Wise Dying Clever Bitter Bitterness Sympathy Unbearable Criminal Mind Condolences Art Of Loving Best Criminal Minds

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“That was a great game of golf, fellers.”

Games Dying Golf Last Words Famous Last Words Dying Last Words Funny Famous Last Words

Author:Bing Crosby

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