A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own

When you’re on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I’ve done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can’t do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can’t happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.

Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught

And, dying, he declined to die.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.

I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of not trying.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

There’s a strange sort of quiet when you’re dying. It’s as if you’re in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Tis not that Dying hurts us so — ‘Tis Living — hurts us more — But Dying — is a different way — A Kind behind the Door —

Not one of all the purple Host who took the Flag today can tell the definition so clear of Victory as he defeated dying on whose forbidden ear the distant strains of triumph burst agonized and clear.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

Dying ain’t much of a living, boy.

Death frees from the fear of dying.

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

I gave you everything. What’s mine is yours. I want you to live your life of course, but I hope you get what you dying for

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians

Get busy living, or get busy dying.