Famous quotes containing the word dying:
“When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“What I behold are feverish fits of strife,
‘Twixt fears of dying and desire of life:”
—George Crabbe (1754–1832)