Top 100 Not Dying Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#3. Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
Bernie Siegel
#4. All of us who are living are dying. The only ones not dying are the dead.,,To live was to be haunted by the inevitability of one's own decay, and to be dead was to be haunted by the memory of living.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#5. You can't!" Aaron said. "Didn't you hear anything I just told you? You could die!
" Well, don't kill me," Call said. "How about our goal is not to die. Both of us. Not dying. Together.
Holly Black
#6. Wat doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and since I was not dying, I was becoming stronger. I was losing emotions, though I didn't want to, but I was vulnerable and had no choice.
Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary
#7. The scariest thing about death is not dying, it's the uncertainty of what happens after
Peyton J Glenn
#8. But I regret to inform you that you are probably not dying'
'As you will.' I take a swig from the bottle of brandy, my teeth chattering against it. I don't have the energy to argue; I must save my strength for my imminent demise.
Janet Mullany
#9. She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her screams his payment for a man worthy of being in her fucking presence and not dying of overexposure to all that goodness.
V. Theia
#10. The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.
Maurice Blanchot
#11. 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
#12. Backed by a long, proud history of not-dying, I know when someone's serious.
Ann Aguirre
#13. I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
#14. The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.
Eugene Kennedy
#15. You're not dying, you just can't think of anything good to do.
Ferris Bueller
#16. When I'm dreaming of Alison Koechner, what I'm dreaming of is not dying. Okay? See? I get it.
Ben H. Winters
#17. Maybe probably ain't all that comforting a word when it's maybe yer not dying.
Patrick Ness
#18. 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
#19. Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.
Heather Dorff
#21. You're not dying," he said.
"How do you know?"
His eyes latched onto mine. "Because I'd never let that happen.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#22. I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.
Rachel Higginson
#24. El Vibora - The Viper. A sexy, badass motherfucker. Part-time underground fighter and full-time thug. The primary concern when fighting El Vibora isn't winning ... it's not dying.
Kele Moon
#25. He who finds not opposition from [sin] ... is at peace with it, not dying to it.
John Owen
#26. She swallowed it. So bitter.
"Vile," she said. "Vile."
"I know, but it helps. Trust me. I know."
"Trust you," she said. "Hah."
"Clearly you are not dying."
"No. Devil won't take me."
The low chuckle again. "Then we're all safe.
Loretta Chase
#27. Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.
George A. Romero
#28. The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
Clive Barnes
#29. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.
Woody Allen
#30. 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
#31. Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.
John C. Broger
#32. I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of.
Kathleen Hanna
#33. When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.
Dennis Prager
#34. It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.
Christoph Waltz
#35. People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; they're just kind of reinventing themselves.'
Jared Kushner
#37. I wake up every morning and think: You know what would be good today? Not dying.
Rick Riordan
#38. Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
Terry Pratchett
#39. Della?" he muttered-
"Yes?"
"I love you."
"You are not dying!" she seethed.
He chuckled. "I didn't say I was ... But just in case." his knees gave. She caught him,-
C.C. Hunter
#40. that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it,
John Green
#41. There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.
Tobey Maguire
#42. The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.
Ron Pearce
#43. Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better.
Agnes Macphail
#44. Apt and poetic though this was, it was simply too bleak to read at a funeral. Instead I settled on Rumfoord's farewell speech on page 2007, which starts: "I am not dying. I am merely taking my leave of the solar system," and ends: "I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I've been.
Gavin Extence
#45. Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.
Christina Engela
#46. From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.
Arundhati Roy
#47. Choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying.
Stephanie Kuehn
#48. 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
#49. That's it?" Jason asked. "You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?"
No, not dying, Son. Living.
Ted Dekker
#50. Every man had to die. He'd always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they'd had the most practice not dying.
Brandon Sanderson
#51. Life is more than not dying. Every living creature is born; it grows and dies. The pattern is the same, regardless of the span allotted. You build between the beginning and the end. What you build is yours. Nothing else is.
Tom Deaderick
#52. My life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.
Dorothy Allison
#53. Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.
Woody Allen
#55. Isn't that the point of living? To find the one person in all the world who's your perfect match?" "Actually, Taylor, the point of living is not dying. Romeo and Juliet failed at that part.
Leisa Rayven
#56. The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment.
Lydia Lunch
#57. Your life is defined by death, and each time you face it you grow stronger. You learn more, and feel more. It sounds stupid to say it like this, but not dying makes you more alive.
Dan Wells
#58. But they are many and he is alone.
This has not come to pass yet, he thinks, this is not happening. I am not dying. This is my fate, what shall be. This is the future, it has not happened yet.
John French
#60. Don't be fooled by the few red or brown leaves you find on poison ivy in the fall - the plant is not dying; it's just cheating with different pigments.
Hope Jahren
#61. Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that. -Aphrodite
P.C. Cast
#62. It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.
Aubrey De Grey
#63. The waitress scuttles away, and I make a shooing motion at the old couple who're still glaring.
"Don't you have something to better to work on?" I hiss. "Like golfing or eating prunes or dying?"
The old lady looks shocked.
"Okay, sorry, not dying. But seriously, prunes are good for you.
Sara Wolf
#64. It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
Margot Asquith
#65. I wanna live. I don't wanna die. That's the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade
George Carlin
#66. The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.
Utah Phillips
#67. He said loudly 'I am not dying' and I said 'for me you are.
Anne Sexton
#68. I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher Hitchens
#69. We just did an awesome job of not dying.
John Green
#70. Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
Mike Epps
#71. In the daylight we know
what's gone is gone,
but at night it's different.
Nothing gets finished,
not dying, not mourning;
Margaret Atwood
#72. Promise me."
"No."
Etan's eyes were glassy with tears. "Coward. If I were dying, you'd promise me. Because you wouldn't have to answer to me then. But I'm not dying, and you won't promise it. Bloody coward.
Brian McClellan
#73. It's not dying that is the problem, he said. 'Climbing is like a lover, and your wife knows this. Whenever you are together, no matter how much you love your family, your thoughts are only of your lover, of climbing.
Andy Kirkpatrick
#74. As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.
Sarah Silverman
#75. I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.
Alan Bennett
#76. Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.
A. Lee Martinez
#77. I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.
Mattie Stepanek
#79. America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.
Leonard Ravenhill
#81. He felt a mixture of fear and excitement, but his main concerns were not dying, making his mentors proud, and not making a fool of himself, in that order of importance.
Wesley Chu
#82. What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.
Leo Tolstoy
#84. What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
#85. I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
Stephen Malkmus
#86. Flint", said Tanis gravely."I know you'll be terribly disappointed. But you've only got a cold. You're not dying.
Mark Anthony
#87. If you are not living unto Christ, you are not dying unto Him, either.
Monica Johnson
#88. I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.
Woody Allen
#89. It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.
Seth Rogen
#90. He'd always found it odd that so many died when they were old, as logic said that was the point in their lives when they'd had the most practice not dying. He
Brandon Sanderson
#91. History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.
Adolf Hitler
#95. I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
Barry Humphries
#96. I order you not to die," Tsunami said, grabbing his shoulder. "Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally bossy voice was full of panic.
Tui T. Sutherland
#97. When the forms of an old culture are dying,
the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.
Rudolf Bahro
#98. I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
#99. Oh, may your silhouette not be broken in the sand,
oh may your eyelids not fly in the absence:
do not go for one minute, beloved,
because in that minute you will have gone so far
that I will cross all the earth asking
if you will return or if you will leave me dying.
Pablo Neruda
#100. He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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