Death And Dying Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Angel, Journey, Sick

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 26, 2011

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• I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

  Adrienne Rich

  Knowing, Tomorrow, Helping

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

  Gena Rowlands

  Death, Husband, Self

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• Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Special, Dying

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• A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

  Allan Gregg

  Goodbye, Bereavement, Dying

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• You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Dying, Loses

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• I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

  B. F. Skinner

  Worry, Anxiety, Dying

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• Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

  Johnny Cash

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 26, 2002.

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• It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Winning, Differences

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Acceptance, Doors, Calm

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

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• At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Death, Men, Choices

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• Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Believe, Understanding

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• Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Zest, Persons, Impending Death

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez,

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