Dying Quotes - Page 3

• The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

  Buffalo Bill

  Men, Broken, Six

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.148, U of Nebraska Press

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• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Veterans Day, Military, War

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• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Death, War, Enemy

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources" by Rev. James Wood, (p. 567), 1899.

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• Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

  Emily Bronte

  Life, Death, Relics

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.463, Penguin

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• We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Happiness, Happy, Laughing

  "Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.145

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• Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Motivational, Health

  Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations p. 139 Fred Metcalf. Penguin Books, London (2001)

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• Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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

  Stanislav Grof

  Training, Patient, Psychedelic

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• There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

  David Hasselhoff

  Children, Wish, Douchebags

  "Hoff the hook" by Lucy Mangan, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2006.

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• Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

  Arthur Helps

  Dying Slowly, Boredom, Faculty

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

  Damien Hirst

  Suicide, Marijuana, Simple

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• To awake from death is to die in peace.

  Douglas Horton

  Death, Awake, Dies

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• It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Time, Men

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 26 Oct. 1769)

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• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death

  Talking of his illness, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784)

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• 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?

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Our Generation, Ties

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.361, Anchor

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• Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

  Charles Lamb

  Prayer, Giving Up, Book

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1903). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and The last essays of Elia”

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• The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

  Pope John Paul II

  Death, Catholic, Victim

  "Pope John Paul Assails 'Free Love' in Poland". www.nytimes.com. June 05, 1991.

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• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Death, Drinking, Procrastination

  "On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1839)

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

  Tom Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Witty, Government

  The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet preface (1911)

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• Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Science, Men

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Fame"

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• I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, Drug, Important

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• Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Baby, Buddhist

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• When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Lying, Father

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baxter (1973). “RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter”

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