Dying Quotes

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Raoul Vaneigem

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying

Woody Allen

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition

Theodore Roethke

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted children living in misery

Unknown

This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.

Sogyal Rinpoche

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Alice James

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Stewart Alsop

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

Thomas Wolfe

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.

Martin H. Fischer

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Brian Williams

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Jessica Mitford

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Joseph Addison

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

Evelyn Waugh

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon