Famous quotes containing the word dying:
“Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)