Quotes about Dying

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.

The word of God is upon me, [and] it's like fire shut up in my bones. And I just have to tell it." What King had to tell was the truth about war, racism, and poverty. "It may hurt me," he said. "But when I took up the cross I recognized its meaning... It is not something that you wear. The cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."

I preach as a dying man to dying men.

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.