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Top Dying Quotes

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

Charles Manson

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Stephen King

Famous Dying Authors

Simone de Beauvoir

Illeana Douglas

Elizabeth George

Edward Hoagland

Lee Ryan

Henry Home

Taylor Caldwell

Howard Stringer

Ivan Illich

Jerry Della Femina

Christy Turlington

Evelyn Waugh

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All Dying Quotes

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

Alan Lomax

40% of people like this quote

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

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I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.

Curt Flood

39% of people like this quote

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

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He not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan

32% of people like this quote

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

Randy Bachman

29% of people like this quote

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Anthony Trollope

28% of people like this quote