Dying Quotes - Page 5

• We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sad, Lonely, Loneliness

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• It cost about 75 cents to kill a man in Ceasar's time. The price rose to about $3,000 per man during the Napoleonic wars; to $5,000 in the American Civil War; and then to $21,000 per man in World War I. Estimates for the future wars indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than $50,000 for each man killed.

  Homer Bone

  Death, Country, War

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• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Punishment, Deeds

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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• In the stars is written the death of every man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, Stars, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1940). “The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Now First Put Into Modern English”

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• The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

  Tryon Edwards

  Death, Assassins, Body

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• Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Death, Aquariums, Imagination

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.40, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

  Agustin Gomez-Arcos

  Death, Winter, The End Of The Day

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• On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.

  Donal Henahan

  Death, Mushrooms, Experts

  "John Cage, Elfin Enigma, at 64" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 1976.

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• So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

  Thomas a Kempis

  Death, Passing Away, World

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• A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

  Arthur Miller

  Death, Suicide, Two

  "The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays".

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• A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Death, Angel

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• The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

  Gary Jules

  Dream, Mad World

  Song: Mad World {From Donnie Darko}

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• Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

  Robert Bolt

  Birthday, Death, Doe

  "A Man For All Seasons (Act II)". Play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More, July 1, 1960.

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• Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Eye, Sun

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 26, 1678.

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• Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Death, Im Sorry, I Am Sorry

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

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• Death is the gate of life.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Death, Gates

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• I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

  Ferenc Molnar

  Death, Memories, Left

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• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, People

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• Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That`s why I am talking about this Hasidic approach. The whole approach consists of methods, ways and means of how to die - the art of dying is the art of living also. Dying as an ego is being born as a non `ego; dying as a part is being born as a whole; dying as man is a basic step towards being born as a God.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Mean, Men

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• Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Women, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa, Roger (frère) (1989). “Mary, Mother of Reconciliations”, Paulist Pr

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• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Wine, Mean

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• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

  Karen Armstrong

  Men, Islam, West

  "Bill Moyers Interviews Karen Armstrong". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 1, 2002.

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• Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Death, Long

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