"Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between."
Read quote
35 likes
Dying quotes
Dying
1.8K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Dying
Browse quotes that often appear alongside dying — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Dying quotes (page 3 of 89)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth."
Read quote
34 likes
"He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for."
Read quote
33 likes
"Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world."
Read quote
33 likes
"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
Read quote
32 likes
"There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell."
Read quote
32 likes
"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got."
Read quote
32 likes
"Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?"
Read quote
28 likes
"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."
Read quote
27 likes
"Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed."
Read quote
27 likes
"Our life is made by the death of others."
Read quote
27 likes
"I paint flowers to prevent them from dying"
Read quote
27 likes
"The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise."
Read quote
27 likes
"If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them."
Read quote
26 likes
"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
Read quote
26 likes
"Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy."
Read quote
24 likes
"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
Read quote
24 likes
"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying."
Read quote
24 likes
"We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need."
Read quote
24 likes
"Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours."
Read quote
24 likes