Dying Quotes

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

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.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

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

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.

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

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

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.

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.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.