Dying Quotes - Page 5

• We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sad, Lonely, Loneliness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

  Donal Henahan

  Death, Mushrooms, Experts

  "John Cage, Elfin Enigma, at 64" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 1976.

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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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• Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

  Hannah Arendt

  Death, Quiet, Silent

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.180, HMH

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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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• Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

  Epicurus

  Death, Evil, Concern

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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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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• The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

  Gary Jules

  Dream, Mad World

  Song: Mad World {From Donnie Darko}

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• Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

  Robert Bolt

  Birthday, Death, Doe

  "A Man For All Seasons (Act II)". Play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More, July 1, 1960.

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• The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

  Ferenc Molnar

  Death, Memories, Left

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• Death is the gate of life.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Death, Gates

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• I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Eye, Sun

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 26, 1678.

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• Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Death, Im Sorry, I Am Sorry

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

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• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, People

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• Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That`s why I am talking about this Hasidic approach. The whole approach consists of methods, ways and means of how to die - the art of dying is the art of living also. Dying as an ego is being born as a non `ego; dying as a part is being born as a whole; dying as man is a basic step towards being born as a God.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Mean, Men

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• Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Wine, Mean

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• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Women, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa, Roger (frère) (1989). “Mary, Mother of Reconciliations”, Paulist Pr

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• Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Witty, Men, Political

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Death, Long

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