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“I, all dying on the ground, Lifted and threw my hands to clutch my sword; But she, that hound-faced one, was gone; nor had she The heart to set my mouth together for me, Or with her hands to close mine eyes, though going To Hadès as I was.”
Thomas Starling Norgate (1772–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The bliss of the drunkard is a visible picture of the expectation of the dying atheist, who hopes no more than to lie down in the grave with the "beasts that perish.”
Jane Porter (1776–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A system of legality is necessary. If garantism is not in fashion, let us reflect on the fact that once the well is empty, we all risk dying of thirst before it rains again.”
Sergio Cusani (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It happened live. People were looking at me as if I were dying. I was shrinking. These deadly arrows. Beads were there; cowries were there, sea stones—fetish objects inside my body.”
Chiwetalu Agu (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dying to oneself and losing oneself in God is a sure commitment to eternity.”
Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (1566–1607) said by 1607 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have abandoned and forgotten the groundnut pyramids, we left the cocoa in the West, we left the rubber plantation in the Mid-West and we are chasing oil. It is unfortunate that we are still chasing oil till tomorrow while agriculture is in shambles, our industries are dying, we don’t even have cottage industries. We are not productive.”
Kalejaiye Adeboye Paul wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Living and dying for motherland is a kind of mindset that an opportunistic agitating leader might mis-use. This is the bedrock of most reclusive like socialist and communistic governments. Democracy must be liberal and the citizens like their leaders must grow a liberal mindset of responsibly advancing the nation, without Kamikatze doctrines on both sides.”
Emmanuel Eni (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look at what’s happening in Rivers State. A president declared martial law and removed constitutionally elected representatives of the people. And look at what’s happening in Benue State. People dying. All the things this president has given Nigeria is tears and blood. And you want to say Kenneth Okonkwo will contemplate going into such an association?”
Kenneth Okonkwo (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you’re going to do with the time while you are here.”
Bill T. Jones (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the chants, and the groans of the dying, as one, Went up to the Lord when the carnage was done.”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s a niche business, “a dying craft that one must make to be desirable and personable.”
Albertus Swanepoel (1959–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Africa is not rising. If Africa was really rising, you wouldn’t have so many migrants dying in the Mediterranean seas”
Edwige-Renée Dro wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t ever think I’ll say “Yes, I made my mark” till my dying bed. Because as far as I live, It’ll always be a process. It’ll never stop. I’ll keep making my marks”
Ken Nwadiogbu (born 1994) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview 1.4 (Ken Nwadiogbu) 1 October 2017
“I lost my sight a month after starting my own establishment, “ recalls Kivumbi who speaks while sitted, facing your writer. Her beautiful eyes light up the room, unfortunately they cannot be put to use. “ It dawned on me that my dream of promoting visual art was dying but not me.”
Ritah Namayanja Kivumbi (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“malevolent trickster, whose goal is to torment the human mother by dying unexpectedly only to return in the next child and do it all over again”
Yagazie Emezi (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are black men dying for a lot less offensive things than that”
Teyonah Parris (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Respectfully, as someone who is very mindful of the words I speak these days, I’m not dying to work with anyone. I do believe it would be an absolute pleasure to work with Angela Bassett. Her poise, dedication, and attend to her art has always been inspiring to me. I’ve crossed paths with her a few times, and she was.”
Bre-Z (born 1987) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: INTERVIEW WITH BRE-Z: MUSIC, ACTING, AND AUTHENTICITY;By Phil Gomez on JUNE 7, 2024
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”
Aristotle (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
Albert Camus (misattributed) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Widely attributed to Camus on the internet, the earliest attribution of such a statement to him yet located is an unsourced citation in Quotations from the Wayside (1999) by Brenda Wong: "Many things are worth dying for…
“People are dying today that have never died before.”
Donald Trump (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.”
Dag Hammarskjöld (attributed) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Sharon Dardis and Cindy Rogers, As I Journey On: Meditations for Those Facing Death (2000)
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
Antonio Gramsci (misattributed) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mongo Beti, une conscience noire, africaine, universelle”, Gustave Massiah, CEDETIM, août 2002 (archive, 2016-03-04)
“I'm kind of nocturnal. I love Conan. He's the bomb. I love Howard Stern when he's being good. I'm dying to get on that show. I also watch Ally McBeal, it's cool and smart. I've always loved The Simpsons. They are such a funky family.”
Eliza Dushku (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
Utah Phillips (attributed) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in Naomi Klein's No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (2009), p.325, and in ' Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs (2018), p. 16.
“In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always either doing or dying.”
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourn'd!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.”
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Death! Plop. The barges down in the river flop. Flop, plop, Above, beneath. From the slimy branches the grey drips drop... To the oozy waters, that lounge and flop... And my head shrieks--"Stop" And my heart shrieks--"Die"...”
Theo Marzials (1850–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And can it be, that I should gain An Int'rest in the Saviour’s blood! Dy'd He for Me? ---- who caus'd his Pain! For Me? ---- who him to Death pursu'd! Amazing Love! how can it be That Thou, my GOD shouldst die for Me?”
Charles Wesley (1707–1788) first seen 1743 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wesley J and Wesley C (1743), "Hymns and Sacred Poems", 4th edition, page 78, at archive.org. Wikisource Full text.
“The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, — his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours.The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.”
Celia Thaxter (1835–1894) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rockweeds" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 21 (March 1868), p. 269
“Cosimo: It is only a play... with music? Does God say the same at every death? It is only a play... with music? When I die, will someone say the same? He was only a prince. He died. It was only a play... with music.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death is the only inescapable unavoidable sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we were born.”
Gary Gilmore (1940–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Book of Quotes (1979) by Barbara Rowes
“Death cannot come To him untimely who is fit to die; The less of this cold world, the more of heaven; The briefer life, the earlier immortality.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 180
“Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty’s perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found,— A life-complete in death-complete to die.”
John B. Tabb (1845–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bubble, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“'T is not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.”
James Montgomery (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: James Montgomery
“God rot your coward bones! Do you think not enough people die here that you must come and threaten me with death. You spurious spew. You instrument of mortgage. You unlicensed appendage of the steering wheel...”
Wole Soyinka (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To die is to become like a child, at last one knows nothing, nothing of death and nothing of life, only that all distances are equally long and all words unintelligible but beautiful. (p. 251)”
Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mie love ys dedde, Gon to hys death-bedde, Al under the wyllowe tree. Waterre wytches, crownede wythe reytes, Bere mee to yer leathalle tyde. I die; I comme; mie true love waytes. Thos the damselle spake, and dyed.”
Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) said by 1770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the skeptic still wants to complain that God killed women and children in the Old Testament, he should realize that He did more than that. He proclaimed the death sentence on the entire human race - every man, woman, and child. We will all die because we have sinned against God.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sunflower keeps its eye on the sun with its back turned to the shade. We die facing life with our backs to death, as if we were walking out of a room backwards.”
Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus Christ could have freed Himself from the hands of Pilate and the Jews, but knowing it was His Eternal Father's will that He should suffer and die for our salvation, He voluntarily submitted; nay, He Himself went forth to meet His enemies and freely permitted Himself to be taken and led to death.”
Pope Pius X (1835–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.”
Owen Feltham (1602–1668) said by 1668 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.”
John Cage (1912–1992) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of "Experimental Music", John Cage (1957)
“But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.”
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once when Isaac and I talked about old age, illness, and death, he said it wasn’t so terrible to get sick and old and to die if you’ve been part of life completing itself as a pattern. Even if you don’t make it to old age, it’s still worthwhile, there’s still pleasure in that vision of being part of the pattern of life—especially a pattern expressed in creativity and shared in love.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?”
Linus Torvalds (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: 林纳斯·托瓦兹 (zh)