Dying Quotes - Page 12

• Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

  Polly Toynbee

  People, Way, Terrible

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Ashley Montagu

  Motivational, Death, Kids

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• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Death, Funeral, Fulfillment In Life

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Answers

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• If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

  Indira Gandhi

  Fear, Assassins, Violence

  Indira Gandhi, Pupul Jayakar (1986). “What I am”

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• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  Langston Hughes

  Beauty, Nature, Fall

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• One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Humorous, Profound

  The Twilight of the Idols

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• Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

  Edward Young

  Death, Fire, Literature

  "The Complaint, Or Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality".

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• This is the last of earth! I am content.

  John Quincy Adams

  Death, Earth, Lasts

  Quoted in William H. Seward, Eulogy of John Quincy Adams Before Legislature of New York (1848)

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• There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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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, Scared, Afraid Of Death

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  No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"

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• Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.

  Eugen Sandow

  Life, Motivational, Moving On

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• You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.

  Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

  Matter, Matter Of Time, Dies

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  The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Regret, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Giving Up, Civilization, Principles

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• 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

  Patience, Women, Grief

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• Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

  C.D. Wright

  Death, Expression, Poetry

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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• No child should die in the dawn of life.

  Danny Thomas

  Life, Children, Dawn

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• Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

  Uesugi Kenshin

  Death, Warrior, Japan

  "Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture". Book by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, p. 188, 1970.

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• Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

  Brittany Maynard

  Life, Death, Time

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• Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

  Shimon Peres

  Life, Death, Positive Thinking

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