Dying Quotes - Page 29

• 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.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Believe, People, Majority

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• What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearance… in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, ‘to cease to be among men’) just as action in the sense of ‘to make a beginning’ is a repetition of birth.

  Hannah

  Men, Thinking, World

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• Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death.  We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours.  Only once, must we be born without our own consent.  Only once, must we die without our own permission

  Calvin Miller

  Opposites, Thrill, Alive

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• Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Criticize, Fairs, Not Fair

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• If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Forever, Church, Looks

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• Once you stop learning, you start dying

  Albert Einstein

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• I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

  Martin Luther

  Reading, Writing, Practice

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• Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Losing, Driving

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• 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.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Suicide, Men, Decision

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• Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
  And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
  Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
  From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore -
  For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore -
  Nameless here for evermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Angel, Names

  "The Raven" l. 7 (1845)

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• There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Death, Men, Differences

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• Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Player, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Fit, Found

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• It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

  Anthony Trollope

  Power, Years, Temptation

  'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 14

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• It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung.

  Bill Hicks

  Oxygen, Iron, People

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• To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, Heaven, Would Be

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• Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

  Robert Breault

  Integrity, Selfish, Mistake

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• Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

  Thomas Gray

  Death, Sleep, Cells

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 13 (1751

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• The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

  Peter Kreeft

  Animal, Civilization, Garbage

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.11, Ignatius Press

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• Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

  Bob Hope

  Careers, One Line, Ruins

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• All i want to make sure of is that she's doing something she loves. watch your kids when they sit down and absolutely get lost in something. maybe that's what they should be doing-the thing they're dying to do all the time.

  Jim Carrey

  Kids, Watches, Want

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• Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Self, Expression

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• It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else. That's what I can't stand, to try so hard and to end in nothing. You know what I mean, don't you? ... I really loved to write.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Writing, Mean, Trying

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• Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

  Milan Kundera

  Water, Radio, Force

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