dying Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about dying.
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
- Epicurus
“Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.”
- Jonathan Sacks
“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.”
- Taylor Caldwell
“It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.”
- Henry Fielding
“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.”
- Jean de la Bruyere
“We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
- Jean de la Bruyere
“Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.”
- Stanislav Grof
“Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.”
- T. D. Jakes
“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
- Langston Hughes