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“That was the way one had to do. To do the best one could, and accept things as they were. Usually, they did not seem so bad after a while; if they were not actually good, then they became so by virtue of the many things that were worse. Almost everything was relatively good. Eating was better than starving, living better than dying.”
Jim Thompson (writer) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Grifters (1963)
“My youth longs for the calendas, the coral necklaces and images of sun-filled fields, where there are no bent backs, no overseers, no children dying. My youth wants to erase the stories of The Infamous Rosalie and barracoons, to lift off this weight that clouds my vision whenever I try to dream. (p64)”
Évelyne Trouillot (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Emptied of us the land, Ghostly our going, Fallen, like spears the hand Dropped in the throwing.We are the lost who went, Like the cranes, crying; Hunted, lonely, and spent, Broken and dying.”
Mary Gilmore (1865–1962) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Waradgery Tribe", sts. 3, 4, anthologised in A Book of Australia, ed. (1961), p. 88
“Let’s see how the authorities handle the situation. I call upon fellow Ugandans to be vigilant at all times, we cannot go on dying like animals. Vigilance is key.For God and my Country.”
Sylvia Rwabogo (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Japanese would act quickly, they would all be regulars, fully trained and equipped for the operations, and fanatics who like dying in battle, whilst our troops would consist mainly of civilians, hastily thrown together on mobilisation, with very little training, short of artillery and possibly of gun ammunition.”
Vernon Sturdee (1890–1966) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1933, to fellow senior officers. Reported in David Horner, Crisis of Command: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1978), p. 16
“Many people are aware of what I’ve accomplished in Munali Constituency. These claims of my failure come from the opposition and some within the party, it's the last efforts of a dying cause. They've resorted to this tactic, hoping their preferred candidate, a weaker choice, can secure easy nomination.”
Nkandu Luo (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My heart is heavy, and I truly believe that if it weren't for this country, Dr. John would not have died. He gave his life for you. But seeing how his people are suffering and dying now, it feels as though his sacrifice was in vain. It's time to change our hearts.”
Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Therefore, more work needs to be done to get women the services that will prevent them from dying. And we need to increase access to contraception or family planning because unsafe abortions arise out of unwanted pregnancies,”
Eunice Brookman-Amissah (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would love to see a transformed health system where everybody gets quality healthcare but where we also have comprehensive health coverage for everyone. It is painful to see women, children, and adolescents dying needlessly from preventable causes, and I am very glad that my government is set out to address this issue.”
Jane Aceng (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every winter that I remember in my childhood, he was gravely ill and seemed to be nearly dying.”
Margaret Beckett (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We stand today on the threshold of the post-antibiotic era, in the earliest days of a time when simple s ... will kill people once again. In fact, they already are. People are dying of infections again, because of a phenomenon called antibiotic resistance.”
Maryn McKenna (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’re looking at how we can prevent women from dying from postpartum haemorrhage. We’re also looking at how we can treat women with anaemia in pregnancy, both in pregnancy and after delivery. We’re also looking at how our women in low-middle-income countries can access treatment for severe preeclampsia.”
Hadiza Shehu Galadanci wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Am I dying, or is this my birthday?”
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the research side, I study young massive star clusters hosted by interacting galaxies and burning ring galaxies to study the effect of the environment on the formation and evolution mechanisms of these proto-clusters. I also search for dying and restarted radio galaxies using LOFAR and MeerKAT to better understand the life cycle of radio galaxies.”
Zara Randriamanakoto (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the reports that caught our attention was the World Health Organisation’s reports which said Nigeria tops the list of countries where women were dying annually from smoke related illnesses.”
Olanike Olugboji-Daramola (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This was discovered by Gompertz in 1825. There's something about our bodies, the way that we age, that means that every year our chance of dying increases by the same amount, 9%.”
David Spiegelhalter (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He did not speak again till just before he died, when he kissed his wife’s hand with singular tenderness and called her "Elizabeth." She had been christened Augusta Frederica; but then, as the doctors explained, dying men often make these mistakes.”
John Oliver Hobbes (1867–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let's not sit about waiting for enough evidence while women and children are dying. Evidence and research must find us in the process of action”
Hendrietta Bogopane wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you suffer so much, when you watch your brothers killing your other brothers -- Because I am Christian. When you see a mom dying and you are not able to save her, then you think, “And I am Christian!” I said, “God created us, gave us, with our baptism, with our communion, strength with that.”
Marguerite Barankitse (born 1957) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maggy Barankitse on why she built what she did, retrieved on Monday, July 29, 2013
“We women were allowed to stand at the Cross. We saw His wounds bleed and His eyes grow dim. As He was dying Jesus put His faith in us, we were to carry His love through the whole world and here we sit and have forgotten Him.”
Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Schmidt-Pauli (tr. Olga Marx, 1932), p. 174
“Life is so contradictory; I am dying, but everywhere in nature there are signs of new life. This gives me joy and peace”
Michelle Botes (1962–2024) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michelle Botes’ Final Interview Reveals Why She Stopped Her Cancer Treatment,December 22, 2024,by Tim. E. Ndoro
“I feel immense physical, intellectual and emotional fatigue, so much so that at times I feel like throwing myself to the side of the road and dying, just like that, from exhaustion, from an inability to express myself, from a lack of love for life and the struggle, and simply because I no longer want to fight and make myself understood.”
Bruno Trentin (1926–2007) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Written in his diary in mid-August 1992, a few days after 31 July, the day on which he signed the agreement abolishing the “scala mobile” (index-linked pay rises) and resigned from the CGIL secretariat. As quoted in Mar…
“I’ve come home to stay! I read about the dying industry of Ghana on the internet and I would love to be a part of it resurrection.”
Amartei Armar (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scheana, You weren't dying. You were in the dentist's office.”
Stassi Schroeder (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To have fall'n, my country crying, He has play'd an English part, Had been better far than dying Of a griev'd and broken heart.”
Richard Glover (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(SFP: Can you tell us your work’s message in 25 words or less?) MK: We, all of us, need to explore our own agency as individuals and communities in order to fix this dying planet. (2022)”
Margaret Killjoy (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.”
W. D. Snodgrass (1926–2009) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: April Inventory", st. 7. Heart's Needle (1959), p. 38
“(In the hospital, before dying, while forgiving his murderer) I want him with me in Heaven.”
Maria Goretti (1890–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Laura Badaracchi, 130° della nascita / Maria Goretti, le celebrazioni nei luoghi della sua vita, avvenire.it, 4 July 2020
“I was dying and nobody was there Please don't cry, baby, life ain't fair.”
Lil Peep (1996–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I showed them a photograph of me when I was at my most ill and they couldn't believe I’m the person in the picture. I went on that journey of nearly dying and then going on to have a child. I had my daughter, Aliyah in 2016 even though I was told I couldn’t have children. I’ve beaten the odds, basically.”
Jelina Berlow-Rahman (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then I was like, people are watching, and they thought that was funny. So I did another one, and then I did another one. And people would hit me and say, “My mom was dying and we would sit and we would sit around and watch you and it made my mom smile and laugh.”
Lexi Allen (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is where children are dying from RSV.”
Heather Zar (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was inspired to do this work because young people are always left behind in the HIV space. Growing up, I saw people dying from preventable causes simply because they didn’t have access to treatment or felt too stigmatised to ask for it.”
Cindy Amaiza (born 1901) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you can’t imagine yourself in one of those boats, you have something missing. They are dying for a life worth living.”
Noma Dumezweni (born 1969) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harry Potter’s Noma Dumezweni delivers spellbinding speech: “I am a refugee child” Stylist (retrieved 13 November 2025)
“These rugged walls less grievous are to me, Than those bedeck'd with curious arras be T'a guilty conscience; to a wounded heart, A palace cannot palliate that smart: Tho' drunk with pleasure, dull with opiates, Some seem as senseless of their sad estates, Till on their dying-beds conscience awakes. But tho' the righteous be in bonds confin'd, They inwardly sweet satisfaction find.”
Mary Mollineux (1651–1695) first seen 1684 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meditations concerning our Imprisonment, only for Conscience sake, in Lancaster Castle", l. 38 (wr. 1684; pub. 1702)
“I'm dying For my sins and my innocence”
Edward Stachura (1937–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More than dying, I wanted only one thing: to live.”
Edward Stachura (1937–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything. Images come in flashes — people and places and stray conversations — and refuse to stop.”
Tatiana Schlossberg (1990–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Over my shoulder I'm dying to meet you But everybody says I'm wrong.”
Dean Blunt (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s when I realized that the saying ‘No story is worth dying for.'”
Susan Enriquez (born 1962) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Reporter’s Life: Susan Enriquez, By Cristina Tantengco 10 October 2012.
“(About the Italian debate on euthanasia) We are faced with a strange alliance between technocratic culture and Catholic religious culture, both of which seek survival at all costs. But Catholic culture at least has a sense of the suffering of the dying, which is foreign to technology, interested only in the proper functioning of the apparatus.”
Sergio Givone (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How can we still bear to call ourselves living—we who are dying!”
Manlio Sgalambro (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being born means [...] coming out of nothingness; dying means returning to nothingness: the living is that which comes out of nothingness and returns to nothingness.”
Emanuele Severino (1929–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drawing and dying for borders is a European illness from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”
Salih Muslim (1951–2026) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, 18 September 2014 – quoted by Joost Jongerden, "The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK): Radical Democracy and the Right to Self-Determination Beyond the Nation-State", in The Ku…
“Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his dæmon, obey with equal fidelity and equanimity the command of his earthly master, the State? His conscience he followed, alive; his country he served, dying. Alack the day when a state grows so powerful as to demand of its citizens the dictates of their conscience!”
Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was the exact combination of the ephemeral and the eternal that a dying man needed to know about.”
Jane Smiley (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There would be some decorum in their dying beneath the country they had fought so long to protect.”
Sebastian Faulks (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... I, as I lay dying Upon the sword, raised up my hands to smite her; And shamelessly she turned away, and scorned To draw my eye-lids down or close my mouth, Though I was on the road to Hades' house.”
William Sinclair Marris (1873–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances — be it a wrong marriage, or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically — there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.”
Vanessa Kirby (born 1988) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nicol, Patricia (14 January 2016). "Vanessa Kirby: meet south-west London's hottest export". Evening Standard.
“What kind of legacy do you want to leave? What life messages are worth living and dying for? You have a God-sized story to tell, a destiny to live into! Yet you must choose to take a step of faith toward Him. Now is the time; today is the day. Own your life.”
Sally Clarkson (born 1953) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Own Your Life: Living with Deep Intention, Bold Faith, and Generous Love (2015), Tyndale Momentum. p. 241.