Top 100 About Dying Quotes
#1. 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.
Mordecai Richler
#2. At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.
Claire Danes
#3. Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can't just think 'I'm going to die anyway', because that's what's stopping us from moving forward.
Queen Latifah
#4. On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.
ASAP Rocky
#5. I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
Richard Pryor
#6. Life is so precious because it's short. Even the most resilient people are fragile. Life isn't about dying or not dying. It's about living well. Living so you can be proud and happy.
Ilona Andrews
#7. Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.
Charles Sheffield
#8. Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.
Albert Ellis
#9. I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.
Robert Anton Wilson
#10. 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!
Lee Ryan
#11. Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!
Raymond Smullyan
#12. I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.
Jane Wagner
#13. Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.
Roger McGough
#14. My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say.
Wes Craven
#15. What worried Dr. Urbino most about dying was the solitary life Fermina Daza would lead without him.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#16. Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.
it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.
Lauren Oliver
#17. It doesn't upset me to think about dying. What upsets me is the idea of John being alone after his spell passes. The idea of one of us without the other. (p.127)
Michael Zadoorian
#18. So what makes you angry?'
'Stupid people. Fake people. Mean people. Death. I worry about dying all the time. Like, all the time.
Jennifer Niven
#19. All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates
Mordecai Richler
#20. WRITE EVERYTHING YOU know about dying. Just go. Don't think, "What does she mean by that?" Dive in. We die in all kinds of ways. Who died? When did they die? how? why?
Natalie Goldberg
#21. I don't know why I've spent over half of
My life talking about dying
Wesley Eisold
#23. It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
Abel Ferrara
#24. Do you think I lie to you?
No.
But you think I might lie to you about dying.
Yes.
Okay. I might. But we're not dying.
Okay.
Cormac McCarthy
#25. We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet are ready to drink death like wine.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara
Jodi Picoult
#27. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
Abel Ferrara
#28. My decision to say no to the transplant wasn't about dying. It's about living.
Kirsty Jones
#29. Sometimes people are very worried about dying. There is no need to be afraid. when the moment of your dying comes, you will be given everything that you need to make that journey in a graceful, elegant, and trusting way.
John O'Donohue
#30. I know I'm not supposed to argue with you when you talk about dying. And yes, you could die, Neil. But I could get hit by a bus and die tomorrow. Either we need to live every single day together like it's our last, or we need to be comfortable with the fact that some times are just sucky times.
Abigail Barnette
#31. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
Stephen King
#32. What's the point of living if you spend it worrying about dying?
Dawn L. Chiletz
#33. I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.
Jonah Lomu
#34. I knew I was in trouble when all of my dreams were either about dying, or kissing you.
Carrie Rudzinski
#35. I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.
Wes Craven
#36. War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his. Gen. George S. Patton
Lee Child
#37. You might expect me to say "life," having just woken up and all, but it's only when I'm awake that I think about dying.
Jennifer Niven
#38. And when I don't feel it, it's pointless.
Think about getting up it's pointless.
Think about eating it's pointless.
Think about dressing it's pointless.
Think about speaking it's pointless.
Think about dying only it's totally
fucking pointless.
Sarah Kane
#39. Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke
#40. Ressurection of the little apple tree outside
my window, leaf-
light of late
in the April
called her eyes, forget
forget
but how
How does one go
about dying?
Who on earth
is going to teach me
The world is filled with people
who have never died
Franz Wright
#41. For a radical Jihadist, this fight is all about dying the right way while killing an infidel. For us, it's all about living the right way because all the dying necessary was done for us two thousand years ago on a hill called Calvary.
Oliver North
#42. Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
Virginia Postrel
#43. One of the saddest things about dying is that it's the only event in my life I won't be able to write about.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#44. Death has dominion because it is not only the start of nothing but the end of everything, and how we think and talk about dying - the emphasis we put on dying with 'dignity' - shows how important it is that life ends appropriately, that death keeps faith with the way we have lived it.
Ronald Dworkin
#45. A bad thing about dying is that I've started to feel as though I'm being erased. Another bad thing is that I won't get to find out what happens next.
Audrey Niffenegger
#46. But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goes on, but not about dying. I never think about dying.
John Berendt
#47. I'm going to live until I die and I'm not going to get life and death confused. While I'm on this earth I'm going to LIVE. Why only be half alive? Every minute a person spends worrying about dying is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead.
David J. Schwartz
#48. I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living
Saji Ijiyemi
#49. I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
Xavier Dolan
#50. There's nothing glorious about dying - anyone can do it.
Ashwin Sanghi
#51. I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.
Madonna Ciccone
#52. Christian faith isn't just a conviction, a feeling and a decision. It invades life so deeply that we have to talk about dying and being born again, which is what corresponds to the death and resurrection of Christ.
Jurgen Moltmann
#53. When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend.
Douglas Adams
#54. They all shared Stan's personal allegiance to the famous old saying: War is not about dying for your country. It's about making the other guy die for his.
Lee Child
#56. The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#57. Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
Arthur Nersesian
#58. They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on you and flush you in the sewers and put you on the subway and carry you out to Coney island and bury you on the Ferris wheel. But I refuse to sit here and worry about dying.
Bob Dylan
#59. My whole life, I wanted to be dead, but I didn't actually do anything about it. I guess I didn't want to be dead; I wanted relief. I wanted to be happy and peaceful." "That's it," she said. "It's not about dying; it's about stopping the pain." (289)
Monica Holloway
#60. Life's about living and being happy, not about dying.
Dean Koontz
#61. If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.
Roseanne Barr
#62. You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
Vladimir Nabokov
#63. Don't talk about dying? You want me to talk about love. They're one and the same, child. One and the same.
Julianna Baggott
#64. I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.
Stella Young
#65. I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.
Libba Bray
#66. Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.
Mario Puzo
#67. You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.
Mayra Santos-Febres
#68. Some people say they're afraid about dying. Noooo ... it's the fear of living totally in the moment, living fully engaged, and independent at the same time. That's the real fear.
Art Hochberg
#69. But you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.
Jennifer Echols
#70. I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway.
Elizabeth Taylor
#71. All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.
Norm MacDonald
#72. I've never thought about dying, But dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.
Stephenie Meyer
#73. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.
Jonathan Tropper
#74. What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.
Laura Esquivel
#75. I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
Damien Rice
#76. He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
Andrew Young
#77. The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Leslie Fiedler
#78. 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.
Jon Crosby
#79. My dad dying was actually a reason for me to stop music properly for about a year, because he was a big supporter. All I wanted to do was write a song about him and, you know, when something's too fresh, you can't quite word it.
Gin Wigmore
#80. War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.
Russell Crowe
#81. Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
Stanley Hauerwas
#82. The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.
Elisabeth Shue
#83. I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there
Terence McKenna
#84. A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance ... like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
Ken Kesey
#85. If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.
Ian McEwan
#86. Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
Nas
#87. For years that's been the buzzword of the house: Sam just wants to be left alone... ...Things change after you die, though -- I guess because dying is about the loneliest thing you can do.
Lauren Oliver
#88. A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."
Nate Parker
#89. I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.
David Wilkerson
#90. That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.
James Cook
#91. Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice. Rinpoche
Daniel Prokop
#92. Dying is one of those things that can't be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.
Scott Westerfeld
#94. I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess nobody has told him that nobody reads newspapers anymore. That is a dying art form.
Bill O'Reilly
#95. My father was a doctor,' she says, 'a very kind man. He died in the early '70s, relatively young.' She taps the cigarette packet on the table. 'Of lung cancer.'
'Oh.'
'But the thing about that is,' she says as she exhales, 'it doesn't take very long at all.
Anna Funder
#96. If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.
Charles Spurgeon
#97. Like, if you're gonna make a decision about me and my life for my own good without consulting me, I'd better be dying and unconscious, and you'd better be following carefully written instructions.
~Max
James Patterson
#98. Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
N. T. Wright
#99. In the room full of individuals for whom I hold feelings of resentment about,
Who might be the first I would converse with, when I am about to bite the dust?
Nishikant
#100. Democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.
Anne Stevenson
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