Dying Quotes - Page 18

• I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.

  Lena Dunham

  Regret, Should Have, Laughing

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.135, Random House

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• Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Thinking, Hands, Your Side

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• Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Home, Recovery, Men

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Teton Sioux, The Yanktonai, The Assiniboin”, p.88, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

  Jennifer Echols

  Live Your Life, Worried, Ifs

  Jennifer Echols (2009). “Going Too Far”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

  Julius Lester

  Important, Doe, Wells

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• Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Atoms, Feels

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• But God's love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might have life, so that no more would we have to die in depression, anger or pain. He loved people back to life. He would go anywhere, talk to anyone. And wherever He went, He would stop for the one-- the forgotten one, the one who was rejected, outcast, sick, even stone dead. Even a thief who was dying for his crimes on the cross next to Him. In the Kingdom of God's love there is no sinner who cannot come home.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Pain, Home

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• Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Stopping, Ministry

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• There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Children, Men, People

  "Battles rage across West Bank", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2002.

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• My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.

  Jon Foreman

  Needs, Looks, Body

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• Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

  Marianne Williamson

  Looks, Born, Do Not Fear

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• I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighbourhood of the ancient gods and goddesses.

  Janet Frame

  Loneliness, Unique, Views

  Janet Frame (1985). “To the is-land: an autobiography”, George Braziller

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• At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

  Os Guinness

  Jesus, Men, Agony

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• Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

  Red Smith

  Bigs, Tricks, Deals

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• Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

  William S. Burroughs

  Powerful, War, Knowing

  "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (A One God Universe)". Studio album by William S. Burroughs with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, September 28, 1993.

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• It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fun, Motivation, Inspiration

  "A roadmap to end aging". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2005.

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• Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Broken Heart, Love Is, Differences

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• This was a kind of dying. Losing the woman I truly had loved, and still loved more than anything, was just unfathomable. To me, she was the world.

  Andres Lokko

  Broken Heart, World, Losing

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• I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

  Rod McKuen

  Broken Heart, Memories, Sunday

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• When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?

  Andy Mineo

  Hero, Stories, Villain

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• I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Kindness, Writing, Church

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• Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying

  Mooji

  Ego, Ghost, Terrified

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• I said i was dying not that i wanted to live”

  Tim Bowler

  Said, Wanted

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• I don’t need to ring anyone. I said I’m dying. I didn’t say I wanted to live.

  Tim Bowler

  Needs, Said, Wanted

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• Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

  John Mortimer

  Running, Laughing, Matter

  John Mortimer (2000). “The Summer of a Dormouse”

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