Dying Quotes - Page 14

• I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  Quoted in Eric Lax, Woody Allen and His Comedy (1975)

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• I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Death, Christian

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• If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

  Kurt Cobain

  Hope, Soul, Becoming

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• Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

  Tom Hanks

  Wish, Mama, Said

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• As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

  Robin Gibb

  Anger, Feelings, Despair

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

  Lee Ryan

  Fall, Thinking, Wake Up

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• The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

  Norman Douglas

  Wisdom, Sublimity

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• Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Ocean, Inner Peace, Thirst

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• The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Evil, Worst

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• People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Waiting, Turns

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• To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

  Frank Frankfort Moore

  Love, Broken Heart, Men

  Frank Frankfort Moore (1896). “The Jessamy Bride: By F. Frankfort Moore”

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• Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

  Ronald Reagan

  Death, Abortion, Conservative

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality, and I see myself continuing a very ancient tradition that goes back to Socrates and Epicurus, which is that to be a philosopher is to try and learn how to die. In learning how to die, one learns how to live.

  Simon Critchley

  Art, Philosophy, Trying

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• I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

  Woody Allen

  Immortality, Achieve, Discworld

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• I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

  B. F. Skinner

  Worry, Anxiety, Months

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• If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, People, Messy Hair

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

  Juvenal

  Death, Men, Body

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• My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

  Ed Furgol

  Inspirational, Clever, Golf

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Death, Lying

  Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

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• Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

  Edwin Arnold

  Sleep, Death And Dying, Life Death

  Sir Edwin Arnold (1893). “The Light of the World, Or, The Great Consummation”

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• The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

  Howard Storm

  Death, Christian, Religious

  Howard Storm (2005). “My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life”, p.51, Harmony

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  If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Business, Work

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• I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

  Jon Secada

  Education, Teacher, Cutting

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• The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

  Ella Maillart

  Running, Woven, Earth

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