Death And Dying Quotes - Page 8

• As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!

  George Washington

  Horse, Powerful, Opportunity

  Washington Irving, George Washington (1904). “Life of George Washington”

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• I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

  Claire Forlani

  Mother, Daughter, Play

  "Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.

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

  Henry Fielding

  Death, Goodbye, Farewell

  Amelia bk. 3, ch. 4 (1751)

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• There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

  John Green

  Cancer, Kids, World

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.222, Penguin

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• That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

  John Green

  Book, Way, Middle

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.67, Penguin

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• About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Death, Lying, Home

  "Selling Death" by Lewis Lapham, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

  Gerard Way

  Death, Thinking, Dying

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• Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

  Eda LeShan

  Retirement, Attitude, Grandma

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• Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Knowing, Understanding

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• I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

  Stephen Rea

  Scary, Dying, Scared

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• There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

  Elias Canetti

  Dying, Earth, Ugly

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• Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Victory, Dying

  Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press

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• You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Dying, United States, Dies

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• Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.

  Andre Chenier

  Distance, Waiting, Dying

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• There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.

  Ethan Canin

  Book, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.

  Kelly Price

  Doctors, Dying, Weight

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• I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Dying

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• When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Life Changing, Cancer, Views

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• Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.

  Cicely Saunders

  Attitude, Ideas, Dying

  Foreword in The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1993)

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• Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

  Rod McKuen

  Dying, Definitions, Made

  Rod McKuen (1980). “Looking for a Friend”, Pocket

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• Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

  Mitch Albom

  Thinking, Dying, Earth

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• Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Moon, Dying, Sun

  Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dying, Should, Ready

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• It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Dying, Succeed

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dying, Finals, Rich

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2460, Delphi Classics

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