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“The graves all are silent. The caskets are vacant. Stalin has no more wisdom for us. Nietzsche is preserved in books, having forgotten to lift his casket lid and tell us he was right. Muhammad gives us the slip. So does Buddha. It is Christ alone who defeats the grave. Nothing is left in the tomb but echoes and cobwebs. And so we do well to listen to Him with the ears of dying men.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I just want to tell a story regardless of whether it fits what the show is saying. I’ve been in a lot of writing rooms where somebody says an idea and everyone’s dying, like laughing so they’re delirious. It’s like a black hole in a good way, everything starts to fall into it, you know what I mean.”
Louis C.K. (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I go to hospitals that have no medicine. You see pain relief in people who haven't had a second of pain relief in months. You see mothers laughing with their dying child. You see hospitals come alive, dancing in the hallways. Food fights! Life! How can anyone convince anybody that life occurred where there was not play?”
Patch Adams (born 1945) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Playing Doctor: An Interview with Patch Adams (1 March 2008)
“I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because there's no other way to play.”
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If ever Christianity appears in its power, it is when it erects its trophies upon the tomb; when it takes up its votaries where the world leaves them; and fills the breast with immortal hope in dying moments.”
Robert Hall (1764–1831) said by 1831 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The roses are dying, and so am I.”
James Bolivar Manson (1879–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shortly before his death, quoted in Frances Spalding, The Tate: A History (1998), pp. 62–70. Tate Gallery Publishing, London. .
“It isn’t dying that’s sad. It’s living when you’re not happy.”
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most rapes of men occur in prison. But even outside of prison, about 9 percent of reported rapes are against men (probably mostly by men, but no one knows for sure). Even rape outside of prison, then, is about as significant an issue for men as AIDS is for women—about 10 percent of the people dying of AIDS are women. Do we hear more about men being raped or about women getting AIDS?”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For anyone who feels our of place in the land of small dogs the only thing left is to become a big dog, and the only advantage in being a big dog is that one is not then ashamed of dying. Not even a big dog can help feeling shamed of living, a big dog least of all. (p. 258)”
Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The victories of Right Are born of strife. There were no Day were there no Night, Nor, without dying, Life.”
Lewis Morris (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile Like someone would hold a crying child Soon everybody will ask what became of you Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.”
Ben Gibbard (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.”
Stanley Hauerwas (born 1940) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "Abortion, Critically Understood" (1990) at lifewatch.org
“Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.”
Jacob M. Appel (born 1973) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?, The Huffington Post (2009-09-02)
“Dying people often become childish”
Georg Büchner (1813–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; enough there is of both in all estates, to bind us in compassionate brotherhood, to teach us impressively that we are of one dying and one immortal family.”
Henry Giles (1809–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.”
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pancho was a bandit boys His horse was fast as polished steel Wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match you know On the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dying words That's the way it goes All the Federales say They could have had him any day They only let him hang around Out of kindness I suppose”
Townes Van Zandt (1944–1997) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pancho and Lefty (1972)
“The ardents who passed through town were careful to explain that the Calling of a farmer was a noble one, one of the highest save for the Calling of a soldier. Kal’s father whispered under his breath that he saw far more honor in feeding the kingdom than he did in fighting and dying in useless wars.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My type is dying out of the theatre. I'm a conductor who has to ORCHESTRATE the whole thing.”
Taubie Kushlick (1910–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eternal Power! Grant me through obvious clouds one transient gleam Of thy bright essence in my dying hour!”
William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844) said by 1844 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Prayer", line 14; cited from Cyrus Redding Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1859) vol. 2, p. 283.
“Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.”
Richard Cecil (clergyman) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?”
Asif Ali Zardari (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The narrow way, the way of holiness, not only leads to life, but it is life. Walking there, serene are our days, peaceful our nights, happy — high above the disorders and miseries of a wretched world—shall be our hourly communion with God; happy — full of assurance, of calm and sacred triumph, shall be our dying hour.”
Richard Fuller (minister) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky (born 1979) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Timeless Identity" (June 2008)
“Now that's contentious stuff. You can say a car manufacturer's new product is a waste of the world's resources and they'll do nothing. You can liken it to a cup of cold sick and refuse to test it, saying it's more boring than dying, and still they won't react. But call a car dangerous and whoa, what's this? A writ? Blimey.”
Jeremy Clarkson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fundamental problem is not that there are limits on voicing different opinions here. The problem is that the whole society is dying through lack of responsibility or involvement.”
“I am not dying; I am entering life.”
Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some dreams take a long time in dying. Some get a last minute reprieve…and that can be even worse.”
Vernor Vinge (1944–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rahul : The fact of the matter is that innocent people died in 1984 and innocent people dying is a horrible thing and should not happen. The difference between Gujarat and 1984 was that the Government of Gujarat was involved in the riots”
Rahul Gandhi (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christianity, and religion in general, is dying in America. (The exceptions are an increase in Islam, probably due to immigration, and in Buddhism, a basically godless religion.) The decline is due largely to a loss of faith among young people, as we’ve seen several times before. Religion wanes one corpse at a time.”
Jerry Coyne (born 1949) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christianity and religion in general are dying in America, especially among Hispanics" July 18, 2021
“Romania is dying because of a lack of men, not a lack of programs.”
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.”
Arthur M. Jolly (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do I think that we should work with the community or the police or the medical people down there to work out what to do if there’s another Scientologist who needs care and we want to avoid psychiatric treatment? Yes I do. And why is that? No matter what the circumstance … anybody would want to do something to avoid someone dying.”
David Miscavige (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools. Now we're having weekly shootings. We had the '60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.”
Christine O'Donnell (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”
Sue Monk Kidd (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Already into the last week of October! The dying fall holds only loneliness. In the garden the chrysanthemums bloom, beautiful, peaceful, as they did a year ago, but the autumn leaves, falling one by one, only make me sad.”
Park Chung-hee (1917–1979) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry (October 1974), as quoted in The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History Revised and Updated (2001), by Don Oberdorfer, p. 55.
“I didn't say I was afraid of dying, I answered, I said that I was afraid to get on a plane. There is a difference. (David to Dr. Singh)”
Paul Auster (1947–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Another perfect catastrophe is just waiting to happen, watching for the moment to transpire. Another perfect catastrophe is just dying to go down. It's only looking for the perfect place and time.”
Tod A (born 1965) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Another Perfect Catastrophe", The Ponzi Scheme (May 5, 1998).
“The impact of the human tragedies I've reported on is that, more often than not, I'll be angry. I want to know why is this child dying? These are not acts of God; they're results of respectable politicians' decisions.”
John Pilger (1939–2023) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This Much I know" The Observer (13 November 2005).
“This senseless advance of expensively trained and equipped men to certain and complete slaughter—men who as usual not only had no idea of what they were dying for, but had been actively misled about it—made about as much military sense as the Siege of Sevastopol or the Battle of the Marne. Certainly it was spectacular, but intellectually it was not even very interesting.”
James Blish (1921–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.”
Tim Powers (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Has Man a Future? (1962), p. 78
“As for us, my little friend, we entered [the Communist Party] because we were tired of dying of hunger.”
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
Woody Allen (born 1935) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
“The remote control had 48 buttons. No resident of the Old Farts Senile Dying Center knew how to operate it. They were the Greatest Generation, men and women who had survived the Depression, defeated the Nazis, built America into the greatest nation the world had ever seen. But this damned gizmo had beaten them. (Chapter 4)”
Dave Barry (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947–2022) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Busted : Stone Cowboys, Narco-lords, and Washington's War on Drugs (2002) edited by Mike Gray
Also quoted by: William F. Buckley Jr. (misattributed)