dying breath Quotes

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!

There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.

I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

Everyone sounded the same when they died.