Quotes of: Dying Keyword

Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.

We, the Drowned

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?

Roman Payne

We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

Adam Michnik

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

George Saunders

Sam: You knew you were dying from the start? George: We're all dying from the start. I just got moved to the head of the line.

Life as a House

And the reason he cannot bear her dying is not the loss of her (which is the future) but that dying puts the two of them (now) into this nakedness together that is unforgivable.

Anne Carson

I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.

A.W. Tozer

if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into each other’s eyes, and Constantine would only h...

Leo Tolstoy

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

The Dying Animal

If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much.

Is Journalism Worth Dying For? Final Dispatches

At least a circus performance does not last long, and the regime availing itself of the services of clownish journalists has the longevity of a mouldering mushroom.

Is Journalism Worth Dying For? Final Dispatches

Girls like good-looking guys, and I am not very good-looking. In fact, I sort of look like a pudding

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.

The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation

Don’t work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don’t make work your whole life.

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Priest: ...ask yourself if that corpse of a slut is worth dying for. Marv: Worth dying for. [shoots priest] Marv: Worth killing for. [shoots him again] Marv: Worth going to hell for. [shoots him again] Marv: Amen.

Sin City

The Mole: If anything goes wrong, make a sound like a dying giraffe. Stan: What's a dying giraffe sound like? The Mole: WUUUUUaahhh! WUUUaaaaaaahhhhh!

South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.

Peter Storey