Dying Quotes - Page 26

• The woman who died night after night
  and her dying was a long goodbye,
  a train that never left.

  Octavio Paz

  Goodbye, Night, Long

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• This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.4, Vintage

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• The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

  Sebastian Faulks

  Doe, Relief, Facts

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I'm not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn't in this world as believers, it's in the eternity. To be absent of body is to be present with the Lord, so they are dying for something that is real and will last forever.

  Russell Okung

  Real, People, Forever

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• Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

  Ann Brashares

  World, Matter, Geek

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.200, Delacorte Press

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• A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

  Charles Wesley

  Sky, Soul, Fit

  Charles Wesley (1989). “Charles Wesley : A Reader: A Reader”, p.449, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.

  Ezra Pound

  Death, Lying, Heart

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.468, Delphi Classics

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• In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

  Walter Scott

  War, Flying, Battle

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.81

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• I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

  Jackie Cooper

  Half, Mediocrity, Kind

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• If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.

  Gordon Allport

  Adversity, Responsibility, Men

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• Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Broken Heart, Love Is, Differences

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• The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

  Jackie French

  Song, Dancing, Swallowing

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• Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Children, Parent

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.19, Oscar Wilde

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• A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

  John Steinbeck

  Past, Greatness, People

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.318, Penguin

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• Don't be so scared of dying that you stop living.

  Santosh Mohan Dev

  Scared

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• Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Health, Age

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• ...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

  Antonio Guterres

  Children, Moving, People

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• We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

  Andy Rooney

  Change, Attitude, Mistake

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• Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned.

  Walter Abendroth

  Music, Cows, Rats

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• Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

  Joey Ramone

  Marriage, Years, Fifty

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• We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

  Penelope Cruz

  Needs, Hunger, World Hunger

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• I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Comfort, Lessons, Faces

  Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

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• To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

  George Cheyne

  Heart, Animal, Practice

  "An Essay on Regimen: Together with Five Discourses, Medical, Moral, and Philosophical". Book by George Cheyne, 1740.

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• I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.

  Lena Dunham

  Regret, Should Have, Laughing

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.135, Random House

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