Dying Quotes

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

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?

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

I am dying of hunger.

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!

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

A closed mind is a dying mind.