dying Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about dying.
“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
- Langston Hughes
“It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.”
- Henry Fielding
“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.”
- Johannes Tauler
“We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
- Jean de la Bruyere
“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
“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”
- Montaigne, Michel De
“Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?”
- Ingrid Newkirk
“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