Top 100 Living Dying Quotes
#1. Living, dying, and thinking ... they're all team sports.
Timothy Leary
#2. What Im trying to say is that what makes you up, its always been around, and it always will be around. So really the only thing you should worry about is the part you're at right now. Where you got a body and a head and all that bullshit. Just worry about living, dying is the easy part.
Justin Halpern
#3. The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#4. This is why. This is _why_. This is why he plays, why he loves, why he listens. It isn't even a high--a high is too low--it is synchronicity with the universe. Physical proof of the three-part harmony between body and soul and song, all three living, dying, resonating.
Kate Racculia
#5. She was worth running for. Worth every loss in my life. Worth stepping outside the law. Worth living, dying, and everything in between.
C.D. Reiss
#6. As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
Lewis Thomas
#7. Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time.
Mike Cooley
#8. Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
Bernie Siegel
#9. What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
Albert Camus
#10. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.
Susan Wells Bennett
#11. The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.
Don DeLillo
#12. There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins
#13. Sometimes heaven was feeling nothing. Maybe being drunk was a little like dying and going to heaven. Like living in the light. He kept thinking of Ileana. She was eight now.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#14. If I Must Go
If I must go to heaven's end
Climbing the ages like a stair,
Be near me and forever bend
With the same eyes above me there;
Time will fly past us like leaves flying,
We shall not heed, for we shall be
Beyond living, beyond dying,
Knowing and known unchangeably.
Sara Teasdale
#15. I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
Jimmy Buffett
#16. Demond's family history wasn't so different from my own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again, down through the generations? That the young and Black had always been dying, until all that was left were children and the few old, as in war?
Jesmyn Ward
#17. 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
#18. It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)
Victoria Moran
#19. Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.
Michael R. French
#20. Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.
Marcus Aurelius
#21. The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.
Anthony Liccione
#22. I'm not scared of dying perhaps I'm scared of living in this world.
Myself
#23. You shouldn't be afraid of dying, Sarah - everyone does it. The only thing to be scared of is not living before you do.
Emma Chase
#24. When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying.
Vimala Thakar
#25. I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.
Evangeline Lilly
#26. Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.
Melina Marchetta
#27. For me, the dying part wasn't so horrible. I was only in pain for a few moments before death arrived. For me, the difficult part was having so many things that I had yet to experience, leaving behind people that I cared about. I wasn't through living.
Suzannah Daniels
#28. Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don't like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!
Neale Donald Walsch
#30. The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.
Eudora Welty
#31. A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.
Phil Pringle
#32. Dying without really living. Leaving this world knowing that the girl who makes me want to live the most-will have to do it without me
Rachel Van Dyken
#33. Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living ... that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.
Charles Spurgeon
#34. And then he spent three years wondering why everyone found that so hard to understand. All he was doing was living instead of dying. Some people get cancer. Some people get crazy. Nobody tries to take the chemo away.
John Corey Whaley
#35. Life's short when compared to eternity, but eternity is only worth it because of life.
Scott Thompson
#36. Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
Virgil
#37. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
Gayle Forman
#38. To not think of dying, is to not think of living.
Jann Arden
#39. In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness.
Vladimir Nabokov
#40. Daily Christian living, in other words, is daily Christian dying: dying to our trivial comforts, soul-shrinking conveniences, arrogant preferences, and self-centered entitlements, and living for something much larger than what makes us comfortable and safe.
Tullian Tchividjian
#41. There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.
Lou Engle
#42. life is the reason for living and death is the reason for dying if we are to live, why die ? there is a ending for everything and being alive gives us a chance to do something and enjoy it.
Pamela
#43. You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
J.K. Rowling
#44. Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.
Octave Mirbeau
#45. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.
F.K. Preston
#46. Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you're spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'
Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'
And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for.
Joseph Heller
#48. Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.
Jennifer L. Holm
#49. Don't worry, I plan on living a long time."
"Why are you making a bucket list, then?"
"Because if you wait until you're really dying, it's too late.
Gayle Forman
#50. On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.
Erri De Luca
#51. Living is hard
dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really
except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.
Rachel Van Dyken
#52. What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"
"Many," Skuduggery said.
Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes."
"Or make brand-new ones.
Derek Landy
#53. As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
Julian Of Norwich
#55. And love ... love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too.
J.R. Ward
#56. Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me ...
Marghanita Laski
#57. Living a life somewhere else in your mind is nothing more than being a prisoner where you are.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#59. When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.
This is the duality of loss.
Christina Rasmussen
#60. Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Simone De Beauvoir
#61. What's the point of living if you spend it worrying about dying?
Dawn L. Chiletz
#62. If there was a hell beyond what he knew, he would welcome it. He had no reason not to.
After all, a life without living was simply a death without dying. What more was there to fear or hate but life, endless life, with no respite?
Ais
#63. Heal the World,
make it a better place,
for you and for me
and the entire human race,
there are people dying,
if you care enough for the living,
make a better place for you and for me ...
Michael Jackson
#64. We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on. And that's how it was.
Fredrik Backman
#65. I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.
Mark Haddon
#66. Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.
Mo Yan
#67. We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.
Chuck Klosterman
#68. You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living
Luke Edison
#69. Embrace the path your loved one's story has taken, and be part of the culture shift that acknowledges dying as part of living.
Carrie Chavez Hansen
#70. You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.
Cheryl Strayed
#71. A life without living was simply a death without dying.
Ais
#72. It is not possible to express the most precious insights,
To see all that craves to be seen,
To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe,
To learn all that needs to be learned,
To live without dying,
And I am sad about it.
But I lived
And I am happy about that.
Dejan Stojanovic
#73. I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
Ivan Klima
#74. In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.
Jan Egeland
#75. There's no right and wrong anymore. Just living and dying.
Molly Looby
#76. The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
Walter Scott
#78. Murderer or bartender or writer, it didn't matter: his fate was the common fate of all, his finish my finish; and here tonight in this city of darkened windows were other millions like him and like me: as indistinguishable as dying blades of grass. Living was hard enough. Dying was a supreme task.
John Fante
#79. He who was living is now dead.
We who were living are now dying.
T. S. Eliot
#80. You are so inconvenient to my existence. That I can't even stand to look at you. I look at myself in the mirror. And you stare back. You are me and I am you. This inconvenient existence. One living, the other dying. You consume my existence. And I let you. 'Cause I love you.
Abria Mattina
#81. Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the whole time that you're talking.
Convinced that you're living whole time that I'm dying.
Tegan Quin
#82. Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No it very wasn't. It was 140 years ago ... that's two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That's how recently you could buy a guy.
Louis C.K.
#83. The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Norman Douglas
#84. I would have to learn to live in a different way, seeing death as an imposing itinerant visitor but knowing that even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living.
Paul Kalanithi
#85. What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?
Donna Tartt
#86. 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
#88. Always be alert, never get hooked into anything negative. Many people go on studying negative things; their energies are simply wasted. There is no art of dying. Or, the art of living is the art of dying. Live!
Osho
#89. Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for.
Levi
Jill Williamson
#90. Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.
A.W. Tozer
#91. Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.
Nenia Campbell
#92. More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.
Robert Thurman
#93. Get busy living, or get busy dying. That's goddam right.
Stephen King
#94. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#95. Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.
Red Smith
#96. If you are afraid of dying then you are afraid of living.
Hiroaki Aoki
#97. This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
Tryon Edwards
#98. Living is in itself dying because every new day we enjoy is another day of our lives lost.
Pessoa, Fernando
#99. The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
Arundhati Roy
#100. When the shadow of death blots out my joy
And erases the face of the sun
Give me strength to endure, hope to believe
That living and dying are one.
William Wallace
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