Dying Quotes - Page 7

• There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

  John Lydon

  Rotten, Glorious, Can Do

  John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.261, Picador

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• The conscience of the dying belies their life.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Conscience

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Réflexions, CXXXVI, p. 130-31, 1922.

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• Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Death, Facts

  Sweeney Agonistes (1932)

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• I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

  Jane Wagner

  Worst, Whole Life, Whole

  "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

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• Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

  Sophocles

  Uprising, Evil, Gains

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• Dying people often become childish.

  Georg Buchner

  People

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.

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• What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Death, Character

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

  George Eliot

  Death, Literature, Never Forget

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Remembrance, Memorial, Death Of A Loved One

  Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All”

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• Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Happiness, Moon, Shining

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• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  Edna Ferber

  Diversity, Mind, Culture

  George Simon Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Jr., Edna Ferber, John P. Marquand (1984). “George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays”, Olympic Marketing Corporation

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• We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

  Voltaire

  Death, Respect, Criminal Mind

  Voltaire's 'etter to M. de Grenonville, 1719.

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• People living deeply have no fear of death.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

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• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Only the young die good.

  Oliver Herford

  Death, Young, Dies

  Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.22, BookRix

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• Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Art, Emotional, Piano

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• Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, War, Age

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• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

  John Keats

  Death, Divorce, Sea

  John Keats (2015). “Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare”, p.345, e-artnow

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• Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Earth, Ends

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• The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Death, Rocks, Two

  Speak, Memory (1951) ch. 1

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• I want to be all used up when I die.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Death, Want

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• For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

  Susan Sontag

  Death, Religious, Atheism

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Faith, Death, War

  "The Boss picks his voice of America" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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