Dying Quotes

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

Write as if you were dying.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

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

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.