Dying Quotes

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

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

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

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.

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.