Quotes About Someone Dying

#1. When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.

John H Richardson

#2. Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

E.L. Doctorow

#3. How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

Jackson Browne

#4. One of the worst parts about someone dying is thinking back to all those times you didn't ask the right questions, all those times you stupidly assumed you'd have all the time in the world. And this too: how all that time feels like not much time at all.

Julie Buxbaum

#5. It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

Sylvester Stallone

#6. Dying before you pay someone back is just plain rude.

Sara Wolf

#7. 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

#8. I kept a picture of me kissing my dad's corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I'd break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

Doug Stanhope

#9. Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you're sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart's a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces all at once?"
"Mm-hmm." He finished his ale. "That would be love.

Jacqueline Carey

#10. I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett

#11. The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia.

Rachel Caine

#12. I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. Yet

Will Schwalbe

#13. They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#14. But there's a million of these
towns that are like factories,
breeding hate and fear that only
the fortunate will never meet
And these zoomed up
kids die like saints, for
someone else's
dollar

Phil Volatile

#15. The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Bill Gates

#16. When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

Jim Carrey

#17. But it was getting pretty hard to grieve someone who wouldn't just get on with the dying.

Devon Monk

#18. The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

Donna Tartt

#19. Backed by a long, proud history of not-dying, I know when someone's serious.

Ann Aguirre

#20. It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

Arlen Specter

#21. Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.

James Hetfield

#22. When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile.

Fafore

#23. I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.

Stephenie Meyer

#24. Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Jodi Picoult

#25. Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.

K. Martin Beckner

#26. Dreaming's shit, but dying's worse; and watching someone die, that comes somewhere between the two, I guess. It ain't good, but it's got to be better than the other thing, better than doing it yourself. Hasn't it?

Chaz Brenchley

#27. In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.

Jean Little

#28. My greatest fear in life isn't dying. It's being the source of someone else's suffering.

V.E Schwab

#29. What could be more intimate than dying with someone?

Sarah Lotz

#30. If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Kurt Cobain

#31. Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.

Rebecca McNutt

#32. It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

#33. Nothing can remind you of your own fragile place in the universe so powerfully as someone your own age dying suddenly, here one minute, gone the next.

Cynthia Hand

#34. Howl's voice was presently heard shouting weakly, Help me, someone! I'm dying from neglect up here!

Diana Wynne Jones

#35. I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just always wanted to be someone else. Then, once I decided that I really thought I was pretty cool, I wanted to see myself.

Drea De Matteo

#36. Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

James Purefoy

#37. The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

Booker T. Washington

#38. Noah crouched over Gansey's body. He said, for the last time, 'You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.'
Gansey died.
'Goodbye,' Noah said. 'Don't throw it away.'
He quietly slid from time.

Maggie Stiefvater

#39. He looked at me very gravely, and put his arms around my neck. I felt his heart beating like the heart of a dying bird, shot with someone's rifle ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#40. Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

Bill Gates

#41. I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.

Lionel Richie

#42. I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#43. When you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

Will Schwalbe

#44. Is this what it's like? he wondered. When you're about to die? One hand stretched back to someone who cares for you, the other reaching for a place you can't see.

Rich Shapero

#45. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Joseph Heller

#46. Good for you, Jason. It's perfectly natural to be angry with your mother for dying. Everybody who loses someone special goes through that. It's just part of the grieving process.

Han Nolan

#47. at best, religion generates comforting noises to mask the fact that someone is starving to death, or is dying of cholera, or has had a crusader stick a sword in his or her chest.

P.Z. Myers

#48. How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she would catch at her heart, afraid she was dying.

Cassandra Clare

#49. I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

Mickey Mantle

#50. I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

Ram Dass

#51. My mother's dying and may not live through the week. So, yes, I'd rather die trying to save her than live with the guilt of wondering if I could have. If you can't understand caring that much for someone you love then you're one coldhearted bastard. (Abbie)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#52. I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.

Melissa Kantor

#53. If someone had informed him that men were dying every day in the Islands for lack of a cup of rice, he would have been surprised. "Why do they insist on eating rice? Meat is so much better!

Ken Liu

#54. I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.

Eddie Murphy

#55. Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She'd taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.

Kim Harrison

#56. If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

Johnny Ramone

#57. If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they've been. If I see a city I see it's living ghostliness - the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it's needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.

Dionne Brand

#58. If we aren't focused on living life to the best of our ability, we're slowly dying a death that's of our own choosing. The odd thing is we get to pick the course we take. Why would someone choose not to live life at full capacity? Scott Hildreth, Unleashed

Scott Hildreth

#59. The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

Jo Walton

#60. When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.

Nikita Dudani

#61. There is absolutely no way someone cannot be affected, or cannnot learn vital lessons by being forced to dwell in the margins of a hindering repose as the one loved by so very few.
Dying and Loving It

Milkweed L. Augustine

#62. Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Andy Warhol

#63. There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.

Jesse Andrews

#64. Deep inside of us we all know there is someone we were meant to be.

David Kessler

#65. Strange the lengths I'll go to in order to keep people away from me, considering how lonely I feel most of the time. I guess that's the strange torment I suffer: dying for company, for someone to talk to, but it's never the right someone who shows.

Hugh Howey

#66. Why spend your life with someone who is dying to change you ... when you can be with someone who only wants to love you as you are.... being his world, moon and stars.

Renee' A. Lee

#67. We have someone with us who is dying
someone whose spirit is ready to leave this world, she thought to the tree. But he wants to be with his clan. With his forest. Will you take us?

Tony DiTerlizzi

#68. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain. Alina was the lucky one. Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering.

Karen Marie Moning

#69. It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.

Jamaica Kincaid

#70. Sven!! Having you near her is natural to Eve ... Hell, it's essential! When someone so important just disappears ... you don't just feel hurt ... you feel like dying.

Kentaro Yabuki

#71. 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

#72. I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

Ernest Gaines

#73. Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.

Richard Curtis

#74. What if ... what if heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a glass of water on a hot day when you're dying of thirst, or when someone's nice to you for no reason, or ...

David Mitchell

#75. It's what happens when you shoot someone," Wayne pointed out. "At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Brandon Sanderson

#76. How many lives do you need to live before you fine someone worth dying for?

Lauren Kate

#77. Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?

Sheri Fink

#78. You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.

Maggie Stiefvater

#79. Maybe someone who dies at the age of a hundred doesn't feel anything more than the fear that grips us when we're six and it's nighttime and our mother comes in to turn out the light.

Kamel Daoud

#80. Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.

Lisa Gardner

#81. ...being in the same room with someone you love that is dying is to watch a part of your own self die.

Keith Rommel

#82. Because someone needs to help you die the right way," she said. "And we both know that dying ain't something you ever done before.

Sherman Alexie

#83. A heart? Peppone knows where one is to be met with. There is always someone in the black market in need of dying early.

Michelle Franklin

#84. This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of me.

Sarah Dessen

#85. Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

Octavia Spencer

#86. I guess the best part of music is that there's not much unknown. Especially in country, because it's always someone leaving or dying or drinking or fighting or loving the United States or talking about God, and the music's simple mostly.

Brian Allen Carr

#87. Certainly war meant dying, but it always shifted the ground beneath a person's feet when it was someone who had once lived and breathed in close proximity.

Markus Zusak

#88. Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn't been much left of the old girl worth eating.

James Oswald

#89. Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

Sigmund Freud

#90. Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

Susan Griffin

#91. Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality is if I didn't take them you would never see me as I want to be seen. I'm a difficult subject and my greatest fear is dying and someone finding my phone and the hundreds upon hundreds of selfies.

Sara Quin

#92. There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.

Anthony Liccione

#93. To give away flowers you have to literally cut off their life supply: 'Here you go, it's pretty now but it's rapidly dying and will decompose before your eyes.' It's like giving someone a pet fish without the bowl.

Jules Cassard

#94. The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.

Gail Collins

#95. I'm curious about why there's so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.

Mackie Burt

#96. What I really enjoy is when someone who I used to have a crush on, a female from my industry, comes up to me at a party and says, 'Oh, I've been dying to meet you. I've had such a crush on you.'

Rupert Penry-Jones

#97. 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

#98. And all I can think is that sometimes you're dying, sometimes you're about to explode, sometimes you're 6 feet under and you're searching for a window when someone pours lighter fluid in your hair and lights a match on your face.
I feel my bones ignite.

Tahereh Mafi

#99. I can truly say my life is worth living now because I've found someone worth dying for.

Sierra Rose

#100. I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember ... dying.

Todd McFarlane