1.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters
Antonio Gramsci
'The antiquated era is expiring, and the fresh epoch battles to come into being; presently is the hour of abominations.'
2.
It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.
Shams Tabrizi
3.
I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.
Mother Angelica
I'm not apprehensive of failure...I'm terrified of passing away and having the Lord tell me, 'Angelica, this is what you could have accomplished had you taken a chance.'
4.
Once you stop learning, you start dying
Albert Einstein
Once you cease acquiring knowledge, you commence expiring.
5.
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
Antonio Gramsci
The antiquated is perishing and the novel cannot come into existence. In this interim there arises a large array of aberrant manifestations.
6.
For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free
John G. Lake
Calculate the expenditure, bear the consequences and liberate those in bondage for a perishing, agonizing world.
8.
Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.
Tupac Shakur
What is the point of striving if I'm only to perish?
9.
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
N. T. Wright
Our society is so obsessed with death and the afterlife when the entirety of Scripture is about bringing heaven to earth.
10.
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.
D. James Kennedy
11.
All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
Henry VIII of England
'Despair has taken hold. Clergymen, clergymen, clergymen!'
12.
If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.
Shams Tabrizi
13.
We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.
Vincent de Paul
14.
I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.
Mother Angelica
I surmise that perishing must be akin to coming to an end and being able to retrospect the tribulations of life, realizing that God was by your side all along.
15.
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Assent, even if you feel trepidation and regret it afterwards, because whatever choice you make, you will rue it for the remainder of your life if you decline.
16.
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Possessing abundant wealth without serenity is akin to perishing of dehydration while immersed in the sea.
17.
I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.
Epictetus
'If I must perish, then if the moment is now I shall bid farewell; if not, then this mealtime shall be my respite - and expiration will have to wait.'
18.
They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
Al Pacino
They say we expire twice - once when the final breath leaves our body and once when the last individual to remember us speaks our name.
19.
I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fĂąckin' dead.
Jim Jefferies
I'm not apprehensive of expiring, since I have no religious beliefs. I will be completely unaware that I am deceased. Do you understand why? Because I'll be totally lifeless.
20.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born
Antonio Gramsci
The quandary lies in the passing of the antiquated and the arising of something novel.
21.
One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.
S. N. Goenka
One learns the craft of passing away by studying the skill of existing: how to become commander of the current instant.
22.
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
Ernest Hemingway
The reverberations of magnificence you have experienced unfold, Resonate through expiring embers of a blaze.
23.
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
Do not meekly accept the darkness, but instead revolt and fight against its encroaching darkness.
24.
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci
Once you abdicate your beliefs, morals, and ethics, your essence is extinguished, along with your culture and society. Finito.
25.
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?
Mansur Al-Hallaj
'Oh you who have been separated from God in his aloneness by the depths of eternity, how can you anticipate to come into contact with him without passing away?'
26.
Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
Clark Gable
27.
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
29.
It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.
Karl Pilkington
30.
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
Joseph Goebbels
31.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
Franz Kafka
32.
I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!
Milton H. Erickson
33.
There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.
Manly Hall
34.
When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?
Andy Mineo
35.
Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.
Heidi Baker
36.
I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.
Imran Khan
37.
Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.
Richard Baxter
38.
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
when all around you there is nothing but water!
Kabir
39.
Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.
Meg Cabot
40.
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
Albert Camus
41.
I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
Ignatius of Antioch
42.
Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.
Cicely Saunders
43.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
John Berger
44.
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
45.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag
46.
Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.
Michael Jackson
47.
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
Ernest Renan
48.
I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
Illeana Douglas
49.
Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
Bruce Lee
50.
Cause whatever you love
could be taken away,
So live like it's your dying day.
Machine Gun Kelly