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“There's an old Australian stockman ― er, , trying, dying. They get themselves up on their collective elbows, revert to their sixties instrumentation, and they try again.”
Rolf Harris (1930–2023) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: parodying "" (1993)
“I would be incapable of loving a gay son. I will not be a hypocrite. I would prefer a son of mine dying in an accident than being seen around with some moustached guy.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inverview to Playboy magazine in 2011. Conservative’s Star Rises in Brazil as Polarizing Views Tap Into Discontent. The New York Times (7 May 2016).
“There is a lot of people in soccer that are favorable to a return because unemployment is knocking on clubs’ doors too. Footballers, if infected with the virus, have a small chance of dying. That's because of their physical state, because they are athletes. [...] The decision to restart soccer is not mine, but we can help.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On restart the Brazilian football leagues, during an interview with Rádio Guaíba, 3 May 2020. As quoted Brazil’s president wants soccer to return amid pandemic (April 30, 2020) by Mauricio Savarese, , and in Brazil's Pr…
“I have learned not only that the colors and the sounds of war are the same, but the fears of war are the same. You know, there is a fear of dying.”
Zainab Salbi (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Wilhelm I’s] venerable personality, known throughout the world for the conscientiousness and devotion to duty he showed until his dying day, with all his past, and the fact that he never gave any reason for malicious tongues to wag, was for us a bulwark against the tide of revolution. The present Kaiser, on the other hand, positively cultivates Social Democrats.”
Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Waldersee in his diary, 22 June 1893
“... We cannot get big grants to do field work anymore. ... Will the next generation of conservation biologists be nothing but a bunch of computer nerds with no firsthand knowledge of natural history? ... The naturalists are dying off and have few heirs.”
“It is I who drink lonely Drinks at twelve, midnight, in hotels of strange towns, It is I who laugh, it is I who make love And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying With a rattle in my throat. I am sinner, I am saint. I am the beloved and the Betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I.”
Kamala Surayya (1934–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Targeting young people, like the tobacco industry had to keep replacing their customers who were dying with new customers. knows they have to target young people. That’s why we have these foods in schools and marketing messages at a younger and younger age for kids to get hooked on all the wrong kinds of foods.”
Michele Simon (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If everyone ate a Western diet, we would need two Planet Earths to feed them. We only have one. And she is dying.”
Philip Wollen (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[S]lavery was neither a backward nor a dying system in the 1850s. It was aggressive, dynamic, and mobile, and by pandering to the racial prejudices of a white republic starved for labor, it was perfectly capable of expansion.”
Allen C. Guelzo (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the doctor reveals my blood pressure is 420 over 69. i hoot & holler outta the building while a bunch of losers try to tell me that im dying”
“Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Candles $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying”
“Yours is not to reason why, eh? I guess you’re lucky at that. It’s not dying that hurts—it’s living.”
Keith Laumer (1925–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the long-term trends, gun ownership in the United States has been declining steadily since the 1970s. The traditional gun-buying public, basically white males, has been aging and dying off, and there aren't enough replacement shooters to take their place. That's why you're seeing a shift in the industry away from traditional hunting rifles and shotguns evolve to focus on firepower and capacity.”
Josh Sugarmann wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pairs of opposites have never been clearer: gross materialism, stock exchanges reeling because of overwhelming greed, and at the same time people dying in millions from starvation.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There will come a time when humanity will look back on this time as the 'barbarian age'. So far from the possible ideal is the present dying civilization that future men will wonder how, and for so long, were we able to sustain it.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The end of the 'barbarian age, (April 1999)
“Masha died quietly, conscious to the last. Father and Kolya were sitting by her bed. They raised her on her pillow. An hour before she died she opened her eyes wide, saw Father and laid his hand on her breast. Father leaned over her and raised her thin, transparent hand to his lips. “I am dying,” she whispered almost inaudibly.”
Alexandra Tolstaya (1884–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
Greta Thunberg (born 2003) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them from speech delivered at the UN Climate Action Summit, Guardian (23 September 2019)
“As we chant “Black Lives Matter”, let's include the lives of people of color dying from US sanctions in Venezuela, being blown up by US bombs in Yemen and Afghanistan, and being tear-gassed, beaten and shot in Palestine with US weapons.”
Medea Benjamin (born 1952) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (9 June 2020)
“If you’re mad that I think people SHOULD KNOW when Dems vote to expand ICE powers, then be mad. ICE is a dangerous agency with 0 accountability, widespread reporting of rape, abuse of power, + children dying in DHS custody. Having a D next to your name doesn’t make that right.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post, (2 March 2019)
“Nothing’s worth living for if there aren’t things you think are worth dying for.”
Steven Boyett (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deaths now outnumber births among white people in more than half the states in the country. Much of this is low birth rates and white men dying from substance abuse and suicide. Our life expectancy has declined for 3 years. We need to do much more.”
Andrew Yang (born 1975) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 15 February 2019
“He understood the phenomenon, of how almost dying made you appreciate what life had to offer. And it was a potent drug, that feeling. Battle was not glorious. But surviving it? That was.”
Steve Perry (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I’ll feel right at home.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t know if I have two weeks left of life or 10 years, but it doesn’t matter. What matters is what you do with the time. If you sit there on your butt and worry about dying, then you fucking wasted it. I haven’t been wasting it. I’m having a really good time, and feeling wonderfully about it. Sooner or later, something is going to break. Right now, my life is pretty great.”
David Crosby (1941–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The omnicidal regimes of 'civilization' and global capitalism have reached their zenith and will end—whether through an ascendant global resistance stronger than this dying world system or through the cataclysmic adjustments the planet already has initiated, such as those that will ensure its evolution for billions of years to come.”
Steven Best (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, it's tough when you have to wait around for other people to write something for you, because there's no precedent for someone who looks like you to play certain characters, right? So it's such a unique character that I've been dying to see and put on camera for a long time, that [Park] plays. And that's something for me that's really personal.”
Ali Wong (born 1982) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her costar Randall Park’s lead character in Always Be My Maybe in “Ali Wong And Randall Park On Rapping, Rom-Com Tropes And (Keanu) Reeves” in NPR (2019 Jun 9)
“Are we all with acute loneliness, chronic patients trying to recover the will to love? ...Sometimes the love of another wounded one acts like a salve which soothes the dying self but cannot heal our lives. And perhaps this is what it feels like to be human, and we are all well?”
Julia Alvarez (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A torrent of tears streamed from my eyes, and I was able at last, without dying, to press to my heart...”
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) said by 1795 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I now felt I’d made a mistake in Uvira. I’d let my guard down. I’d allowed myself to feel I belonged. But there was no real belonging—not anymore. There was only coming and going and coming and going and dying. There was no point in letting anybody get close.”
Clemantine Wamariya (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She is afraid of crumbling and disappearing, of being taken and being left behind at the same time: a body tumbling between hands while dying inside.”
Maaza Mengiste (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just seeing people getting cancer and dying from it, and me hearing that that's the stuff that we put inside of us is what's causing this cancer… it was my peoples who passed from cancer. I'm asking around like, "Where this cancer s--- coming from?" Everything we eat—the processed food and the stuff they put inside it.”
YG (rapper) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: YG Explains Why He Went Vegan In 'Breakfast Club' Interview", Vibe.com (22 June 2016).
“Even as Mr. Trump has promoted the drug, which is also often prescribed for patients with , it has created rifts within his own . And while many hospitals have chosen to use hydroxychloroquine in a desperate attempt to treat dying patients who have few other options, others have noted that it carries serious risks. In particular, the drug can cause a that can lead to .”
Michael Crowley (journalist) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine (April 5, 2020), co-written with Katie Thomas and Maggie Haberman, .
Also quoted by: Maggie Haberman
“Dying," observed the doctor, "is such a very ordinary thing to do.”
John Wyndham (1903–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“… SARS-CoV-2. … Only the sick with co-morbidities are at risk of dying from the infection. …”
Judy Mikovits (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our 87-year-old neighbor has no power, so we’re storing his food on a freezer hooked to a generator. Our family friend is dying of pancreatic cancer and had to be transferred from home hospice, because he has no power. Hope your shareholders feel good about their dividends.”
Katherine Maher (born 1983) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter, (9 Aug 2020)
“Thinking about this moment, for me, leading up to this, it felt like we weren’t working fast enough... Our work wasn’t as effective as it needed to be. We’ve received all of the awards. I’m like, ‘Dear God, I don’t want another award, I want this to end.’ I do not care for any more accolades! This to me is common sense. You don’t want to see people dying and being murdered like this.”
Opal Tometi (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, for the love, I can't even simulate sex without dying!. I had a little asthma attack, without any prior knowledge that I had asthma, during the scene where we had to jump up and down for hours and hours screaming and yelling on the bed. [It] was humiliating, because it was the second day of shooting.”
Emma Stone (born 1988) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Emma Stone Recalls Asthma Attack During 'Easy A' Fake-Sex Scenes". MTV News. September 15, 2010.
“When the ambush came, he was the one who knocked me down and threw himself on top of me, taking my share of the bullets and frags. Dying, his body twitched on top of me, and I hesitate to say it, but it was as if he were making love to me. And I guess he was, at that.”
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As the great-grandson of a Party commissar, I resent Stalin avatar tankies for appropriating my culture without even doing the research (becoming an alcoholic, dying before the age of 50)”
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nostalgia is an illness. A symptom of the dying, of those who have more life behind them than before them.”
Scott Crary (born 1978) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Kill Your Idols: Director's Notes", the booklet accompanying the Raro Video release of Kill Your Idols (2007)
“A lot of people have died in the Underground, through accidents, stupidity, or suicide. All the one-unders whose dying wish had been to make other people late for work.”
Ben Aaronovitch (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On New York City] The streets are filthy, they’re covered with people basically dying on drugs. They can’t even stand up. They’re falling over. There’s so much crime in the city. I can’t comprehend how people live there.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I find joy in the celebration of Mass. Joy in sharing the Word of Life and the Bread of Life. There is joy in my heart when I witness the love united in marriage, and in pouring saving waters on the heads of little ones. My joy is in conveying to sinners God's forgiveness and in praying with the dying as they prepare to meet their Lord and Savior.”
Thanh Thai Nguyen (born 1953) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vietnamese native appointed auxiliary bishop of Orange (October 6, 2017)
“[Said as he was dying:] In a way it is a beautiful thing, to leave in the middle of life, but it is bitter. I have done my part, now let other do theirs.”
Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He said to me [his wife]: "Tell me, what kind of person was I? You know, when you're living your life you don't think much about the soul, about your self. But when you're dying, that's what you want to know." I told him: "You were a noble, faithful, honest, gifted man.”
Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once you have geared yourself up to think in purely revolutionary terms, things don’t seem so one-way anymore. If you view yourself as among the last of a dying-breed and then proceed to act accordingly, then that’s exactly what you’ve become!”
James Mason (neo-Nazi) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No real history has been recorded since 1945. Nothing of a positive, upward nature has occurred since then. Some technology has been developed which threatens to destroy us all. Some infectious diseases have been curtailed while degenerative disease now seems to be in all our futures. Civilization is crumbling and dying.”
James Mason (neo-Nazi) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're born dying but we're compelled to fancy our chances.”
Hbomberguy (born 1992) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hbomberguy but the questions get worse (by jacksfilms), 27 May 2025
“I feel so sad that adequate medication isn’t available at this moment and people are dying from curable ailments.”
Busi Ncube (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source