Welcome to our collection of Dying Quotes. In life, the subject of mortality is one that both fascinates and terrifies us. It is a topic that has inspired profound thoughts, reflections, and expressions from individuals throughout history. Whether contemplating the inevitability of our own death or reflecting on the passing of loved ones, the words of philosophers, poets, authors, and other great minds have provided solace, insight, and comfort.
On this page, you will find a curated selection of poignant quotes about dying. These quotes capture the essence of the human experience when faced with mortality, offering different perspectives and insights into the profound nature of life’s ultimate certainty. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, words of wisdom, or simply a way to express your thoughts and feelings, these quotes can be a source of guidance and solace. Feel free to copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create your own meaningful and visually appealing expressions. Explore these powerful quotes on the topic of dying below, and let them inspire and resonate with you.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. Ronald Reagan
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. Bill Gates
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple. Damien Hirst
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard
Authority forgets a dying king. Alfred Lord Tennyson
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains. Nelson Mandela
People are dying in vain because this country isn’t holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody. Colin Kaepernick
If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. Eric Cantona
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
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Langston Hughes
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. Simone de Beauvoir
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying… Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. Ivan Illich
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. Morris West
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. John F. Kennedy
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Redd Foxx
Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There’s no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that’s all it is. George Harrison
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. Robert Benchley
A person starts dying when they stop dreaming. Brian Williams
Get busy living, or get busy dying. Stephen King
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. Homer
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. St. Jerome
Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno. Tyson Fury
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The act of dying is one of the acts of life. Marcus Aurelius
I’m different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying’s for fools, dying’s for amateurs. Charlie Sheen
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell
Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else. Morrie Schwartz
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. Jean de la Bruyere
Someone might come close to dying, and they’ll enjoy life much more than everyone else. I came close to the death of my sports career, and I enjoy everything coming my way. Vincent Kompany
I can’t think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying. Elliott Smith
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. Tom Robbins
The young man, born to rule England, which his dying father commended to him. Once his father is dead, London will cavil. The kingdom is taken back from his son. Nostradamus
Dying is a wild night and a new road. Emily Dickinson
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. Chuck Yeager
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap. Anthony Hopkins
Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly. Jan Schakowsky
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. George Bernard Shaw
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates
My story is going to be completely different than someone else’s story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do. Lil Baby
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Derek Jarman
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being. Lou Holtz
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. Christina Rossetti
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they’re dying in vain right this very second. And you know what’s worse than a soldier dying in vain? It’s more soldiers dying in vain. That’s what’s worse. Mike Gravel
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. Alexander the Great
Why should I be worried about dying? It’s not going to happen in my lifetime! Raymond Smullyan
If you’re not growing, you’re dying, and I’m not ready for that. Mary Steenburgen
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. Henry Fielding
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath. Ram Dass
As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need. Russell M. Nelson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Samuel Johnson
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. Lao Tzu
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. Johnny Cash
Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death. Annie Lennox
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. Lord Byron
I don’t think it’s too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don’t wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you’re 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can’t be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest. Jello Biafra
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call. Sylvia Plath
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. Scott Alexander
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. Martin Luther
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be. Princess Diana
I don’t believe in dying. It’s been done. I’m working on a new exit. Besides, I can’t die now – I’m booked. George Burns
Death is the ultimate enemy – and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. Stephen Jay Gould
Thor is magical, yes, but it is the magic of reality. His hammer was crafted ‘in the heart of a dying star,’ but so were you! Most of the atoms that make you up are in fact the innards of a ball of gas in space that got so heavy that it exploded. Stars died so that you could live, as physicist Lawrence Krauss would say. Kyle Hill
I had, like, 11 jobs. I’ve been fired 11 times! ‘Cause I’m not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work – I’m singing, tellin’ jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying. Steve Harvey
Personal accountability and responsibility is dying. Long live the Democrat welfare state. Neal Boortz
Nobody’s life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars. Yoko Ono
I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes. Drake
Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn’t know why. Bruce Springsteen
Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out. Robbie Williams
I am dying, Egypt, dying. Marc Antony
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. Stewart Alsop
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. Joan of Arc
The only thing that scares me is dying. YoungBoy Never Broke Again
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street. Leo Buscaglia
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? Annie Dillard
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. Michel de Montaigne
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. Oscar Wilde
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. Otto von Bismarck
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. Anne Lamott
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. Albert Schweitzer
My father once said, ‘If you’re in the desert and you’re dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?’ I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic. Nicolas Cage
A closed mind is a dying mind. Edna Ferber
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, ‘I’m your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.’ Marina Abramovic
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benet
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
I sit with people who are dying. I’m one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they’re dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth. Ram Dass
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. Thomas Wolfe
Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom. Marcel Duchamp
He not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan
Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition. Nicholas Kristof
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. Adam Smith
People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste. Elton John
