Dying Quotes

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

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

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

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

People continue to fear dying, only because no one ever has.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

When you stop growing you start dying.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should be possessed by one thought alone – how to conserve your strength to the last so that those who survive may conquer.