Dying Quotes - Page 4

• A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Death, Angel

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• I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

  Shelley Fabares

  Second Chance, Given A Chance, Chance

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

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• No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Death, Suicide, Harbors

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• Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

  Agustin Gomez-Arcos

  Death, Winter, The End Of The Day

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• So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

  Thomas a Kempis

  Death, Passing Away, World

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• A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

  Arthur Miller

  Death, Suicide, Two

  "The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays".

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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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• Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

  Thomas Troward

  Inspirational, Death, Mean

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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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• To awake from death is to die in peace.

  Douglas Horton

  Death, Awake, Dies

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

  Jules Renard

  Death, Ignorance, Fire

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.41, Tin House Books

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• The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

  Tryon Edwards

  Death, Assassins, Body

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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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• One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

  John Ruskin

  Death, Doe, Knows

  John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.232, John Ruskin

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• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Punishment, Deeds

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Death, Saying Goodbye

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Mean, Years

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