Dying Quotes - Page 8

• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Success, Death

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

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• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Death, Mean

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Years, Mind

  "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" l. 9 (1919)

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• Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Heaven

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [235]

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• Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspiring, Death, Past

  1850 'ForAnnie'.

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• Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Hands, Arms

  Thomas Browne (1682). “Religio Medici”, p.100

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• You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Death, Kindness

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• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

  Alexander Pope

  Famous Last Words, Hundred, Symptoms

  To George, Lord Lyttelton, 15 May 1744, in Joseph Spence 'Anecdotes' (ed. J. Osborn, 1966) no. 637

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• If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

  Lytton Strachey

  Thinking, Last Words, Deathbed

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• If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

  Clarence Day

  Funny, Death, Humor

  1935 Life With Father,'Father interferes'.

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• War is death's feast.

  George Herbert

  Death, War

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.317

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• Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Ice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Death, Suicide, Criticism

  The Good Word pt. 1, ch. 15 (1978)

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• Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

  Christina Rossetti

  Death, Green, Cypress Trees

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

  Socrates

  Death, Wise, Fear

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• It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

  Tom Holt

  Beautiful, Girl, Workout

  "Expecting Someone Taller". Book by Tom Holt, 1987.

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• It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Rocks, Talking

  Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature, originally delivered December 10, 1950 in Stockholm Sweden

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• Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Death, Dark, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Poems”

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• And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

  Francis of Assisi

  Death, Born, Eternal Life

  Francis of Assisi (2017). “St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers”, p.72, Paper & Ink

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• Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

  Louis XIV

  Death, Kings, Thinking

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• I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

  Banksy

  Life, Death, Time

  The Sun, 2010.

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• Rest is for the dead.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Death

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• If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Death, Faith

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  Orlando Bloom

  Love, Life, Sex

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• It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Alarms, Death And Dying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 13, 1595.

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