Dying Quotes - Page 35

• How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Memories, Fall

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.293

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• No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

  Alexander Pope

  Saint, Silver, Praise

  Alexander Pope, John Butt (1963). “Poems”, p.256, Yale University Press

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• Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.

  Sara Teasdale

  Moon, Clouds, Light

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Special, Tasks

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• When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.

  Claude Monet

  Dark, Thinking, Light

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• I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.

  Claude Monet

  People, Suffering, Artistic

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• Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Light, Sky

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Burning, Done, Today

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweat, People, Forgiving

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.125, Anchor

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• No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Dark, Echoes, Cities

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.169, Faber & Faber

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• It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't even read.

  Newt Gingrich

  Baby, Years, Civilization

  "Spiro Agnew With Brains". www.newsweek.com. November 27, 1994.

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• A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

  Allan Gregg

  Goodbye, Bereavement, Months

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• Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Affliction, Immortality, Delusion

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• The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Swans, Years, Tides

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• Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Stars, Rocks, Legacy

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• For me, starting each collection is always about what I really want, what I really need, and I was personally dying for sensual comfort. I think when you think of Donna Karan, you think of sensuality, but it's a different kind of sensuality. A kind of comfort sensuality that is one with your body and the way clothes feel on.

  Donna Karan

  Thinking, Clothes, Sensual

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• Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

  Wyndham Lewis

  Ideas, Sound, Why Not

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled, pt.1, ch.1.

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• Our deepest calling is not to grow in our knowledge of God. It is to make disciples. Our knowledge will grow -- the Holy Spirit, Jesus promised, will guide us into all truth. But that's not our calling, it is His. Our calling is to prepare the world for Christ's return. The world is not ready yet. And so, we go about introducing a dying world to the Savior of Life. Anything we do toward our own growth must be toward that end.

  Jeff Bryant

  Jesus, Growth, Calling

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• In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Hero, Heroism, Heroic

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• In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.

  Francesco Clemente

  Buddhist, Wall, Fall

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• I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

  Randy Pausch

  Fun, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.

  Lawren Harris

  Courage, Men, Mind

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• Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.

  Robert Longo

  Way, Easy, Young

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• Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Winning, Brave

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• I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death

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