Dying Quotes - Page 4

• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  God, Work, Technology

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• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oysters, Sick

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• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Time, Hospitality

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

  Edward Young

  Death, Fear, Angel

  Edward Young (1760). “The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality. By E. Young”, p.4

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• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Death, Saying Goodbye

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• Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Important, Wow

  "A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs" by Mona Simpson, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

  William Penn

  Death, Grief, Sea

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.183

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• I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

  Rumi

  Death, Wisdom, Fear

  Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Jal?l al-D?n R?m? (Maulana), Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (2001). “Selected Poems of Rumi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Death, Suicide, Harbors

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• The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Long, Habit

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

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• I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

  Shelley Fabares

  Second Chance, Given A Chance, Chance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

  Epicurus

  Death, Evil, Concern

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

  Jules Renard

  Death, Ignorance, Fire

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.41, Tin House Books

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• Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Mean, Years

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• The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

  Alice James

  Funny, Death, Doe

  Alice James (1981). “The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence”, Berkeley : University of California Press

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• Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

  Philip Roth

  Death, Illness, Knows

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• See in what peace a Christian can die.

  Joseph Addison

  Death, Christian, Peace

  Dying words to his stepson Lord Warwick, in Edward Young 'Conjectures on Original Composition' (1759)

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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Children, Sides

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

  John Ruskin

  Death, Doe, Knows

  John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.232, John Ruskin

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• Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

  Thomas Troward

  Inspirational, Death, Mean

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• Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

  Hannah Arendt

  Death, Quiet, Silent

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.180, HMH

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• Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Pain, Heart

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• Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Lasts, Ignored

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Time Must Have a Stop”, p.181, Random House

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• Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Death, Cutting

  "Fictional character: Boris". "Love and Death", www.imdb.com. June 10, 1975.

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• We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

  Yasser Arafat

  Death, Blood, People

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