I don't want to achieve immortality through my work† I want to achieve it through not dying.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Quoted in Eric Lax Woody  Allen and His Comedy (1975), ch.12.

   Art cannot hold its breath too long without dying.

-Antheil, George
  Bad Boy of Music.

   We are essentially fragile.We don't have to wait for the sword or some other equally sensational weapon to strike us down† There are so many ways of us dying it's astonishing any of us choose old age.

-Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret
  Young  Adolf, ch.12.

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

-Benchley, Robert Charles
Quoted in Ian Crofton and Donald Fraser A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (1985).

   But I'm dying now and done for, What on earth was all the fun for? I am ill and old and terrified and tight.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Sun and FunöSong of a Night-club Proprietress'.

Asunknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 6:9^10.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

-Browne, SirThomas
  Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.

-Browning, Robert
  La Saisiaz, prologue.

I think the dying prayat the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door.

-Dillard, Annie
  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.15.

   And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

-Dryden,John
The Spanish Friar, act 2, sc.2.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

-Fielding, Henry
Amelia, bk.3, ch.4.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

-Franklin, Benjamin
Attributed prayer, traditionally known as the'Prayer of St Francis'.

   I used to have this terrible wish. I didn't mind dying as long as the rest of the world ground to a halt when I did.

-Glen, Iain
In The Herald, 8  Jul.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After dying has stopped the ears.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.19.

   The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant. You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him; Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him; Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.

-Jeffers, (John) Robinson
  Cawdor,'Hurt Hawks'.

It mattersnot howa mandies,but how helives.Theact of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 26 Oct. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

-Lowndes,William
  Under the Volcano, ch.12.

Every moment of one's existence one isgrowing into more or retreating into less.One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  'Hip, Hell, and The Navigator', in Western Review, no. 23, Winter.

And all the way that wild high crying, To cold his blood with the thought of dying.

-Masefield,John Edward
  Reynard the Fox, pt.2, stanza 49.

On finirait par devenir fou, ou par mourir, si on ne pouvait pas pleurer. We would end by becoming crazy or by dying, if we could not cry.

-Maupassant, Guy de
  Fort comme la mort, bk.2, ch.1.