dying

It mattersnot howa mandies,but how helives.Theact of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After dying has stopped the ears.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Be it granted to me to behold you again in dying, Hills of home! and to hear again the call; Hear about the graves of the martyrs the peeweets crying, And hear no more at all.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

And all the way that wild high crying, To cold his blood with the thought of dying.

—Masefield,John Edward

Humanbeings†theygo on being bornand dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

—Mishima,Yukio pseudonym of  Hiraoka Kimitake

   I used to have this terrible wish. I didn't mind dying as long as the rest of the world ground to a halt when I did.

—Glen, Iain

Asunknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

—Dryden,John

On finirait par devenir fou, ou par mourir, si on ne pouvait pas pleurer. We would end by becoming crazy or by dying, if we could not cry.

—Maupassant, Guy de

Dying, Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

—Plath, Sylvia

Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reddit natura figuras. nec perit in toto quidquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique, desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant. No species remains constant: that great renovator of matter Nature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there's nothing in the whole universe that perishes, believe me; rather it renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birth isno morethan incipient change froma prior state, while dying is merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transported hither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.

—Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

—Fielding, Henry

'There is no terror, brotherToby, in its looks, but what it borrowsfromgroans and convulsionsöand theblowing of noses, and the wiping away of tears with the bottoms ofcurtains, ina dying man'sroomöStrip itofthese, what is it?'ö'Tis better in battle than in bed,'said my uncle Toby.

—Sterne, Laurence

   But I'm dying now and done for, What on earth was all the fun for? I am ill and old and terrified and tight.

—Betjeman, SirJohn

I think the dying prayat the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door.

—Dillard, Annie

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.

—Browning, Robert

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

—Browne, SirThomas

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

—Pope, Alexander

   Art cannot hold its breath too long without dying.

—Antheil, George

I am dying, as I have lived, beyond my means.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

L'ide¤  e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide¤  e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

—Proust, Marcel

If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.

—Strachey, (Giles) Lytton

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work† I want to achieve it through not dying.

—Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

—Franklin, Benjamin

   Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

—Benchley, Robert Charles

The poem in the rock and The poem in the mind Are not one. It was in dying I tried to make them so.

—Thomas, R(onald) S(tuart)

Every moment of one's existence one isgrowing into more or retreating into less.One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

—Lowndes,William

   The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant. You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him; Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him; Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.

—Jeffers, (John) Robinson

   We are essentially fragile.We don't have to wait for the sword or some other equally sensational weapon to strike us down† There are so many ways of us dying it's astonishing any of us choose old age.

—Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret

Continue morimur, ego dumhec scribo,tu dumleges, alii dum audient dumque non audient, ego quoque dumhec leges moriar, tu moreris dum hec scribo, ambo morimur, omnes morimur, semper morimur. We are dying continuously: I while I write this, you while you read it, others while they hear or do not hear it. I will be dying as you read this, you will be dying as I write it. Weare both dying, weareall dying, wearealways dying.

—Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)

Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts. It will come to you, this love of the land.

—Mitchell, Margaret