Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
Orlando Bloom

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
Charles Rangel

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Polly Toynbee

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
Barbra Streisand

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
Polly Toynbee

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
Rodney Dangerfield

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Alexander Herzen

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
William Butler Yeats

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

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
Dustin Hoffman

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.
Polly Toynbee

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