Famous quotes containing the word dying:
“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“And this is law, I will maintain,
Until my dying day, Sir,
That whatsoever king shall reign,
I’ll be the Vicar of Bray, Sir.”
—Unknown. The Vicar of Bray (l. 9–12)
“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)