Quotes on Dying

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.

The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.

I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

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

When a man comes to die,_x000D_ no matter what his talents and influences and genius,_x000D_ if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him_x000D_ and his dying a cold horror.

This is how it works _x000D_ You're young until you're not _x000D_ You love until you don't _x000D_ You try until you can't _x000D_ You laugh until you cry _x000D_ You cry until you laugh _x000D_ And everyone must breathe _x000D_ Until their dying breath.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.