80 Dying Inside Quotes

Following is our list of dying inside quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about smiling outside but dying inside.

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Famous Dying Inside Quotes

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver. — George Allen

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. - Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. — Albert Schweitzer

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die. - Tupac Shakur

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die. — Tupac Shakur

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person. — Gerard Way

Falling in love is dying by the cupid's bow. — Michael Bassey

My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. - Stephen Baldwin

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. — Stephen Baldwin

I kind of feel like every moment is a death. — Naval Ravikant

Dying is a wild night and a new road. — Emily Dickinson

To say goodbye is to die a little. — Raymond Chandler

O starry night, This is how I want to die - Anne Sexton

O starry night, This is how I want to die — Anne Sexton

The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. — Frederic Chopin

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. — Franz Kafka

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. — Norman Cousins

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end. — Erich Maria Remarque

Short Dying Inside Quotes

  • Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith, Tryna hide behind a lie with a straight face. — Xzibit
  • its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself — Ned Vizzini
  • My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill. — Drake
  • I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time. — Sage Francis
  • All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die. — Tupac Shakur
  • I almost died and everyday, I wish I did. — Piolo Pascual
  • You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. — J. K. Rowling
  • This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. — Sayings
  • You have to die a few times before you can really live. — Charles Bukowski
  • I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living. — Oliver Sacks

Dying Inside Image Quotes

Dying inside quote Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Feeling Dying Inside Quotes

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble. — Haruki Murakami

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. — Norman Cousins

If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. — Rachel Vincent

Dying inside quote I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal. — Elie Wiesel

Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Every time I say sure when I mean no, every time I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter T-E-A-M, Yea, Team. — Louise Bernikow

Dying inside quote You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

The whole world is looking for miracles. Every day it is dying to see miracles. But can there be any miracle More challenging, more illumining And more fulfilling Than to see and feel the infinite Beauty Of my Beloved Supreme Inside this tinier than the tiniest Gratitude-heart of mine? — Sri Chinmoy

Stuff your feelings because feelings buried alive don't die. And that fear or that upset or that anger or that whatever it is, it'll turn into something inside of you. So you want to get it out. — Iyanla Vanzant

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me. — Mikhail Prokhorov

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More Dying Inside Quotes

I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside. — Sojourner Truth

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough. — Pat Conroy

Dying inside quote The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life what I w
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life what I wanted to die.

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70. — Benjamin Franklin

Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World Order has a dying empire odor and changing the channel ain't going to make this go away. — Jello Biafra

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold. — Francois Mauriac

Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means 'Memento Mori' - remember you must die. — John Furniss

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside. — Susanna Kaysen

Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow. — Lewis B. Smedes

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside — Andy Stanley

I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home — Nas

Don't die with your music still inside. — Wayne Dyer

Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. — Wayne Dyer

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence. — Norman Cousins

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. — Benjamin Disraeli

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? — Jodi Picoult

You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside. — John Lennon

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth. — Haruki Murakami

I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards. — Shai Agassi

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside. — Anchee Min

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside. — Bob Seger

Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didn’t like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave. — Hiroo Onoda

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment. — Robert Silverberg

I was 'alone' amongst the animal kingdom and I required of myself to see what was truly going on inside me so that my own true potential could step forth. Therefore I died so that heaven could show me who I had become, within that showing me to myself as who I am, what I am going to be doing and where all of you fit into the picture. — Timothy Treadwell

I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me. — Evangeline Lilly

Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to grow, how to breathe, and how to sleep, but NOTHING that tells us to die. So why do we? Because we literally rust and decay our bodies from the inside out with poor food and lifestyle choices. — Jillian Michaels

I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground. — Jack White

Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman! — Swami Vivekananda

nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself — Charles Bukowski

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die. — Julie Anne Peters

No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure that... because when you die, that's still what you have. It's what you're born with and what you leave with. It's kind of a story of the way you accompanied yourself through your life. — Antony Hegarty

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. — Enid Bagnold

Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever. — Frederick Lenz

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before. — Roger Ebert

We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed. I fear my soul has died. We stopped writing home to our mothers. We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.? — Julie Otsuka

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