Dying Like A Man Quotes

#1. Above the altar is suspended the horrifically detailed model of a dying man, who, like the stained-glass version of his mother during The Annunciation, is wearing an expression too serene for such surprising circumstance. Jesus looks like he's thinking, Well, here I am, nailed to some wood.

Mark Crutchfield

#2. Vampirism: (n) 1. The condition of being a vampire, marked by the need to ingest blood and extreme vulnerability to sunlight. 2. The act of preying upon others for financial or emotional gain. 3. A gigantic pain in the butt.

Molly Harper

#3. A new beer with sweat running down the sides slides into view and Pigpen sidles up beside me grinning like a crazy man. "Everyone's dying to know who you're texting with. It's like you're a twelve-year-old girl chained to that damn cell. Have you started your period yet?

Katie McGarry

#4. I am an old man, and I am dying ... Will you remember me, Jacob?"
I promise, one day, I will join you, Mr. Gold."
Mr. Gold's laughter sounded like a trumpet and brought light to the corners of the room.

Noah Benshea

#5. You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. I've felt afraid as a reporter many times. Sometimes it's sharp, as in a bad moment, or a bad situation; other times it's general, as in a country known for kidnapping, where you can never quite relax.

William Finnegan

#7. We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

Matt Damon

#8. Aging is a chance to make what was good, great; and what was never so good, better.

Amy Bloom

#9. I craned my neck to see his face, which was pointed toward the wall. What looked like a puncture mark was visible on his neck. I held my fingers to a pulse point. The beating was faint. No wonder this man was the most quiet grown-up in the library. He was dying.

Shari Hearn

#10. Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

Chief Seattle

#11. Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

Michael Shaara

#12. Oh, good grief! I've never had a man pick me up before and not grunt like he's dying. I'm in heaven. Marry me, Ash, please! (Pam)
I would say yes, but I come with more baggage than even Samsonite can cover. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. We born dyin' ... But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Walter Mosley

#14. It's difficult the first time you have to get close to kill another. You see their eyes, see the light in it go out. Even a troll's eyes have that light. I'd be worried if you didn't feel something after that. I don't like hunting with a man who's a killer without that feeling.

Raymond E. Feist

#15. I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

Alice Sebold

#16. Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.

Francois Fenelon

#17. Our thoughts define our destiny.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have.

Sylvia Plath

#19. I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want anything to do with me, now that I can see no point in living. I'm afraid he's forgotten me.

Emile Zola

#20. And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#21. To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

Frank Frankfort Moore

#22. This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ...

Ruggiero Ricci

#23. The life which, if i were still a man with pride, honor, ambition and so forth, would seem like the bottom rung of degredation. It's a negative reality, just like death
a sort of heaven without the pain and terror of dying.

Henry Miller

#24. Sometimes a man can be a lot like a farm. He lets his heart lay fallow for a while, and instead of his feelings dying out, they just go dormant, his emotions growing deeper and stronger as time passes. A person only needs to clear away the weeds on the surface to uncover them.

Linda Kage

#25. The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

Karen Kingsbury

#26. She gave me hugs that were like oxygen to a dying man and uplifted my soul!

Avijeet Das

#27. The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.

Chief Seattle

#28. I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

Edan Lepucki

#29. The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say.

Sarah Vowell

#30. The words came from him like a sob, a hoarse sound like the death rattle of a dying man; it seemed indeed like the agony of death when the father's love was powerless.

Honore De Balzac

#31. The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Clarence Darrow

#32. Or perhaps it is because it is so NECESSARY for you to win. It is like a drowning man catching at a straw. You yourself will agree that, unless he were drowning he would not mistake a straw for the trunk of a tree.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#33. I didn't just want Lachlan's muscles, his lips, his endless skills beneath the sheets. I wanted him, every part of him. The dark bits that were hidden away and only hinted at by tattoos. I desired all of him, like a dying man desires one more breath.

Karina Halle

#34. You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

Emerson Fittipaldi

#35. The firelight burned at Jason's back and made his shadow stretch out across the asphalt before him like a dying man. "Hurry,

Clint Stoker

#36. [WASHINGTON]
It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hunger
I was just like you when I was younger
Head full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr?

[HAMILTON]
Yes

[WASHINGTON]
Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#37. A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.

Erri De Luca