Dying Quotes

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

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

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.

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

I've been dying to play.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds.

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

I'd rather be dead than dying.

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

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.

Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.