Dying Quotes

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.

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.

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.