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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.
I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art
I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!
Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!
In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.
It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.
Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.
I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.
So ... will you stay with me until it's over? Please?" "Kaylee, I would do anything for the girl who granted my dying wish.
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.
Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?".
Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.
Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.
The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.
I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway.
Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.
In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It was horrendous.
Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.
