Quotes About Waiting To Die

#1. When the day comes, I'll get up at his funeral and break a giant stick. Then I'll head to a bar and spend the rest of the night drinking, laughing, crying... and waiting to die. Somebody bring a stick. - Amanda Palmer New York City June 26th, 2012

C. Anthony Martignetti

#2. I was feeling unfulfilled and, frankly, rather crappy about everything. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of us weren't even doing little things.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

Ashley Montagu

#4. Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.

Courtney Summers

#5. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. The over-all impression is one of a town that is waiting to die. It is not enough, these days, to say that Chamberlain will never be the same. It may be closer to the truth to say that Chamberlain will simply never again be.

Stephen King

#7. They camped that night under a full moon and a sky crowded with stars that made Froi forget that there was an old man waiting to die and remember that there was a kingdom dying to live.

Melina Marchetta

#8. I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

Misty Upham

#9. Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

T.I.

#10. Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

S.A. Tawks

#11. I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

Benjamin Carson

#12. Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal.

Diana Pharaoh Francis

#13. Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

Ken Watanabe

#14. While you are waiting to die, you have to live.

Kate Williams

#15. Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.

Laura Bush

#16. What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible.

Henning Mankell

#17. Life is what you do while you're waiting to die ... Life is how the time goes by

Fred Ebb

#18. A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

Debasish Mridha

#19. The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

William Proxmire

#20. I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.

Charles Bukowski

#21. Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.

Robert De Niro

#22. Waiting for the bus on Sherbrooke today is like waiting to die.
Or what I imagine it would be like.

Fanny Britt

#23. Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die ... #AHOLE

A.O. Storm

#24. While I was waiting to die, I still had the Journal of Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Michel Houellebecq

#25. A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Octavio Paz

#26. People twenty-five and up just sat around waiting to die. That was what I'd thought.
So while I was waiting to die, I looked at bras. The last thing on my mind was comfort. It seemed to be the last thing on Victoria's Secret's mind, too.

Susan Richards

#27. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren't even doing little things. We were vegetables.

Charles Bukowski

#28. Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

Louie Gohmert

#29. There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.

John Fante

#30. This is the way it was in Yates County. Bald Girls. Wild boys formed from math. Geniuses all around, just waiting to be discovered, or waiting to rot in trailers behind their parents' barns, die penniless, mourned only by the Amish from whom they bought all those eggs.

Lydia Netzer

#31. The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

George Eliot

#32. Do not fear to live and love again, for watching your sadness was worse than death. Do not die while you are still alive, my love. I shall be waiting for you," he said. "Live and love for me...

Kate Danley

#33. I promise you this. I'll love you until the day I die even if I have to live without you. And if it's fifty years from now, you come home, Nick Anderson. Do you hear me? I'll be waiting on you.

Katherine Allred

#34. Well, anybody can be a straight man if he hears well. You just have to wait for laughs. A straight man just repeats the questions and the comedian gets the laughs and you just wait for them and don't let them die completely at the tail end of the laugh.

George Burns

#35. I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#36. I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

Thom Yorke

#37. The end was nigh. She had been waiting for her father to die so her life could begin, but as we could all have told her it doesn't work like that. She knew that anyway. Really.

Atkinson, Kate

#38. An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

Louis Sachar

#39. All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

Evel Knievel

#40. I lit the candles and said out loud, "what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?" And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.

Paula Heller Garland

#41. Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

John Ortberg Jr.

#42. Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.

RZA

#43. It is said that resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die. There is no room for such a waste of energy in the service of God.

Reinhard Bonnke

#44. I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

George Eastman

#45. The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

Saul Williams

#46. I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours.

Kemp Muhl

#47. Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

Seth Godin

#48. The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.

Howard Storm

#49. The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait ... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.

Gary Larson

#50. Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Olivia Fox Cabane

#51. You can't live life waiting for things to go wrong, because then you're not really living. Everyone is going to die. That is part of the journey of living. What matters most is living each day you do have like it might be yout last.

Missy Johnson

#52. Great poets are all philosophers too profound to systematize their ideas. Inside every dark visionary is a being of insidious reason waiting patiently for his host to die. From the cleft of the creative arises the categorical flower.

Alex Stein

#53. You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#54. I'm not afraid to die, for I know the joys of heaven are waiting. My greatest desire is to live today in anticipation of tomorrow and be ready to be welcomed into His home for all eternity. Will you be making the journey with me?

Billy Graham

#55. I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.

Jerry Seinfeld

#56. You're 28, why are you going to goth clubs? Do what I do, sit at home & wait to die. You don't have to kill yourself, you're just waiting.

Adam Carolla

#57. If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

Mark Batterson

#58. For the first time in the interminable twenty-seven years that he had been waiting, Florentino Ariza could not endure the pangs of grief at the thought that this admirable man would have to die in order for him to be happy.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#59. Kyubey: When you decide to die for the good of the universe, call me anytime. I'll be waiting.

Magica Quartet

#60. He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Owen Feltham

#61. For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

Norman Maclean

#62. Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

Jack Kevorkian

#63. I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

Angel Haze

#64. I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#65. I don't need to jump off cliffs into oceans to die, because every day there is a little death waiting for me. All I have to do is wake up and walk out the front door.

Jami Attenberg

#66. Jacob didn't want to coerce or be coerced, but what was he supposed to do? Sit on his hands waiting for his grandfather to shatter his hip and die in a hospital room as every abandoned old person is destined to do?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#67. how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written.

Sanober Khan

#68. With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

James Cook

#69. Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.

David Gemmell

#70. One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to be waiting for him and everyone else who lived long enough to die.

Joseph Heller

#71. The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Lee Iacocca

#72. Die on a hilltop ... eyeing the crows ... waiting for your lids to close ... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh ... Ironic that they go for the eyes first ...

Eddie Vedder

#73. I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she left anyway."
"But you didn't die," He says.
"I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.

Courtney Summers

#74. I hate beds," she said slowly. "They stand there night after night waiting for you to die in them. It's like lying in a tomb.

Susan Kay

#75. It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

Terry Pratchett

#76. He is not only a distraction I can't afford but a heartbreak waiting to happen. His allegiances are shaky at best. One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.

Victoria Aveyard

#77. If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?

Jodi Picoult

#78. Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.

Phar West Nagle

#79. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.

Abigail Strom

#80. What am I waiting for, Emily asked herself. For each Saturday in Young in Heart to end? For Mrs. Conwey to die? For news from some college and a sense of what next year would be?

Charles Merrill

#81. You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#82. Don't wait to be happy to laugh ... You may die and never have laughed.

Jean De La Bruyere

#83. Forgiveness withheld is like drinking poison and waiting for the offender to die.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#84. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Anne Lamott

#85. I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#86. No one keeps himself waiting; and yet the greatest cure for anger is to wait, so that the initial passion it engenders may die down, and the fog that shrouds the mind may subside, or become less thick.

Seneca.

#87. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?

Stephen Levine

#88. In those moments, it was easy to believe that Izumrud still lived somewhere, waiting to be woken by the call of heroes, dreaming of the fine meal he would have it only some hapless child would walk into his mouth. A beast like that rests; he does not die.

Leigh Bardugo

#89. What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

Bernie Siegel

#90. If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we'll have so much to talk about when I see you again ... (Bones)

Jeaniene Frost

#91. Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. - MALACHY MCCOURT

Katherine Crowley

#92. Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Oscar Wilde

#93. File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.

Antony Johnston

#94. Action films can be like watching paint dry. You can just die in the trailer waiting for them to set up a shot, then you go out for a few minutes or an hour of endurance testing.

Pierce Brosnan

#95. I don't know what's waiting for us when we die
something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Charles De Lint

#96. Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don't matter and about people that don't matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you're going to die.

Elliott Chaze