Expiring Quotes

#1. Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

Joseph Addison

#2. That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.

Paul Bowles

#3. On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever.

Edward Gibbon

#4. Nature is never static. It is always changing. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Nothing endures. Everything is in the process of either coming into being or expiring.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am. Nothing is killing me; I have no enemy, no antagonist; I am merely expiring, like a magazine subscription: month by month.

Philip K. Dick

#6. Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

Alexander Pope

#7. At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.

Scott Cherney

#8. Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

John Gay

#9. Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

John Gregory

#10. I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Mary Jo Putney

#11. This is man, who, if he can remember ten golden moments of joy and happiness out of all his years, ten moments unmarked by care, unseamed by aches or itches, has power to lift himself with his expiring breath and say: I have lived upon this earth and known glory!

Thomas Wolfe

#12. For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#13. A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.

Ned Sublette

#14. Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.

Richard B. Garnett

#15. Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

Charles Dickens

#16. As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.

John Aubrey

#17. She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

Charles Dickens

#18. In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with inadequate footwear.

Jodi Taylor

#19. Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

Jenny Holzer

#20. Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

William Wordsworth

#21. Bells, the poor man's only music.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#22. I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells.

Eugene De Mazenod

#23. Food is really important to me.

Christine Teigen

#24. There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer consistently, it does not pile up, at least I do not feel it for the time being, and the degree of my suffering is far less than the suffering that is perhaps my due.

Franz Kafka

#25. No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#26. you were not wrong for leaving
you were wrong for coming back
and thinking
you could have me
when it was convenient
and leave when it was not

Rupi Kaur

#27. Your "imperfection" might be another's fetish.

Jason Armstrong

#28. People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are - have always been - heroic in really quiet ways.

Jack Thorne

#29. Winston Churchill quote, the one where he says, Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense?

Brad Meltzer

#30. Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

Francis Crick