Quotes with dying

  • 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.
  • The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
  • As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile Like someone would hold a crying child Soon everybody will ask what became of you Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.
  • To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
  • I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
  • When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
  • Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
  • In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
  • A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
  • I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson Dying is a wild night and a new road.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Richard Dawkins In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Caroline Norton A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
    Bingen on the Rhine l. 1 (1850)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Scott Alexander All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
    Scott Alexander
    American professional baseball pitcher (1989 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Anthony Holden Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Christina Rossetti And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Ben Gibbard As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile
    Like someone would hold a crying child Soon everybody will ask what became of you
    Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.
    Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Authority forgets a dying king.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Aldous Huxley Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Muriel Spark Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Stevie Smith Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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