People Who Are Dying Quotes:

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

- Henry Van Dyke

topic: Death, People, Afraid Of Death, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Death, People, Someone Who Is Dying, Meaningful Death

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Men, Fear Of Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Live To The Fullest

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

- James O'Barr

topic: Sympathy, Death, Lost Love, Inspirational Mourning, Love Grows

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Buddhist

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Death, Children, Fear, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2016). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.94, Broadview Press

topic: Inspirational, Death, Dying, Someone Who Is Dying, People Who Are Dying

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.

- David Wilkerson

topic: Silly, People, Dying, Skit, People Who Are Dying

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

- William Law

topic: Sports, Men, People, People Who Are Dying

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

- Lawrence Lessig

source: Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

topic: Ideas, People, Culture, People Who Are Dying

There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

topic: Social Contract, People Who Are Dying

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

- Indira Gandhi

source: Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

topic: People, Democracy, Dying, Illiterate, People Who Are Dying