Top 600 Dying Quotes

I’m on a no-gummy bear or juice diet, and my body feels like it’s dying on the inside.

There’s nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

I’m still mad at Josh Charles for dying on ‘The Good Wife.’

I think I’ve become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends’ parents dying and myself – I’m still healthy, but I’m aging, and that’s something that I think about more, even though I shouldn’t be too concerned.

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions – not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland – and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

That’s what I love about death on ‘Game of Thrones.’ Nobody has dying speeches. Nobody has anything like that. Once you’re gone, you’re gone.

A lot of people die in my movies. So if you’re in a few of my movies, you have a good chance of dying!

First, I am afraid to die and I love to live. But an adventure is only an adventure when there is the threat of dying.

It’s kind of nice to play somebody that isn’t psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

War isn’t just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It’s also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death.

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

Sleep – death without dying – living, but not life.

It makes no sense to spend precious resources on propping up loss-making, state-owned enterprises when they could be used to get more children into school or provide more midwives to reduce the number of mothers dying in childbirth.

My grandmother died from Alzheimer’s, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It’s not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they’re dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person.

There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.

Trump is a turning point in America’s history; everything’s fun now. In fact, my only fear is dying from ‘winning exhaustion.’

Dying should not be a taxable event.

People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, ‘They’re not dying; they’re just kind of reinventing themselves.’

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

My mother Reba Vidyarthi was a Kathak dancer while my father Govind Vidyarthi was a theatre personality. Later on, he worked for Sangeet Natak Akademi and documented many dying art forms of India.

There’s nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what’s going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened in the past. We’re seeing languages dying out on a massive scale.

It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, ‘If only you’d take these tubes out, it feels so nice.’ It felt so – it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

You need the living, loving heart of living, loving men and women to quicken other hearts, which can live too and love too, and, in their turn, will quicken others which are dying now.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.

In real life, it’s war, and war’s not entertainment. War is ‘old men lying and young men dying’ kind of deal. That’s a saying; I didn’t make that up.

I’m not dying until I do.

I don’t like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it’s not because I’m afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me – that, I think, would be terrifying.

I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that’s not true. You’re always better off living.

Death, the real simile for disease – for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it’s only a little? – remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn’t quite process the grief.

I hardly ever watch the news… I love reading newspapers, but I know they’re dying out.

I believe a child dying between a couple either makes you stronger, or it doesn’t.

We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they’ve had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really, no text is worth dying for; that is our message to young people. And this is such a new phenomenon when you look at the number of texts and how they’ve increased exponentially in just the last few years.

I’m kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can’t be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I’m not afraid of losing this business.

I grew up dying my hair with Kool Aid. I used to switch my hair up every day just to make myself look and feel good.

People always make a lot about how I don’t carry grudges. That’s my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can’t live with hatred inside of me. That’s what I learned. I ain’t scared of dying, either.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don’t look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don’t worry about it because it’s going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, ‘What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?’ The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It’s like being transported to a fairyland.

I really don’t mind dying because I figure I haven’t wasted this life.

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

Pure dance form is not dying.

I have great luck. I’m used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly – but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they’re still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in the game. If not, they just slowly wind down.