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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• Dying people often become childish.

  Georg Buchner

  People

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Years, Mind

  "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" l. 9 (1919)

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• Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Heaven

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [235]

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• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Success, Death

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

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• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Death, Mean

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Hands, Arms

  Thomas Browne (1682). “Religio Medici”, p.100

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• You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Death, Kindness

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• To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

  Socrates

  Death, Wise, Fear

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