Quotes on Dying

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

Author: Todd Akin

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

Author: Mitch Albom

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Author: Woody Allen

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Author: Henri Amiel

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

Author: Marc Antony

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Author: John Berger

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

Author: Berke Breathed

I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.

Author: Brooke Burke

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

Author: George Burns

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Author: Robert Burns

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Author: Samuel Butler

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Author: Emile Cioran

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

Author: David Cronenberg

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

Author: Bette Davis

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Author: Emily Dickinson

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.

Author: Carrie Donovan

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

Author: Sheena Easton

I'd rather be dead than dying.

Author: Stephen Evans

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

Author: Jerry Femina

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Author: Edna Ferber

Dying should not be a taxable event.

Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Author: John Foster

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Author: Christian Gellert

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

Author: Mike Gravel

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Author: Alexander Great

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

Author: Alexander Great

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

Author: Stanislav Grof

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Author: Dag Hammarskjold

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

Author: Keith Henson

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

Author: Damien Hirst

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Author: Tom Holt

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

Author: Harry Johnston

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

Author: Star Jones

I've been dying to play.

Author: Johnny Kelly

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Author: Stephen King

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Author: Stephen King

I am dying of hunger.

Author: Klaus Kinski

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

Author: Nicholas Kristof

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

Author: Michael Landon

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Author: Robert Lansing

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

Author: Astrid Lindgren

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

Author: Alan Lomax

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Author: Martin Luther

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.

Author: Norman MacCaig

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Author: Norman Mailer

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

Author: Thomas Mann

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

Author: Charles Manson

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Author: Henry Miller

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Author: Spike Milligan

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Author: Margaret Mitchell

I'm dying always.

Author: Jessye Norman

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Author: Thomas Page

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

Author: William Penn

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Author: Christopher Plummer

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

Author: Richard Pryor

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Author: Tom Robbins

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

Author: Christina Rossetti

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

Author: Philip Roth

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Author: Johnny Rotten

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Author: Morrie Schwartz

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Author: Albert Schweitzer

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

Author: Brian Setzer

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Author: George Shaw

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

Author: Kate Smith

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Author: Logan Smith

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Author: Raymond Smullyan

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Author: Sophocles

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

Author: Jane Swisshelm

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Author: Dylan Thomas

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

Author: John Thorn

It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

Author: Christy Turlington

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

Author: Holly Valance

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

Author: Herve Villechaize

Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

Author: Zach Wamp

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Author: Oscar Wilde

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Author: Brian Williams