Dying Quotes - Page 32

• If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

  Laura Nyro

  Death, Wells, Ifs

  Song: And When I Die

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• Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Death, Giving Up, Guy

  Song: Racing in the Street, Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, 1978

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• Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.

  Billy Idol

  Fighting, Light, Rays

  Song: Don't Need a Gun, Album: Whiplash Smile, 1986

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• There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Nature, Stars

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

  Willie Nelson

  Love, Memories, Embers

  Song: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

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• The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Real, Writing, Memorial

  Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press

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• [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Ocean, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

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• I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fighting, Gun, Light

  Song: Violent, Album: 2Pacalypse Now

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• So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

  Theodor Adorno

  Hygiene, Irrelevance, Culture

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.232, Verso

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• I will do my duty no matter what the price, I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice. Oh, and I don't want to die for you, but if dying is asked of me, I'll bear that cross of honor cause freedom don't come free.

  Toby Keith

  Sacrifice, Honor, Want

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• I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

  Colin Firth

  Jobs, People, Desire

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• My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge.

  Tina St. John

  Writing, Romance, Historical

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• I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

  Star Jones

  Unhealthy, Obese, Felt

  "Larry Ling Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 10, 2006.

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• It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

  Bette Midler

  Dance, Fear, Philosophy

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• We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

  Dolly Parton

  Philosophy

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• Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Ignorance, Technology, Simple

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• It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  War, Technology, Space

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• If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that we have here at the close of the twentieth century to move out into space and they see that we didn't do anything with it ... I don't want history to judge us on having blown this opportunity, and I think history will judge us on this more than on any other issue.

  Paul Levinson

  Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Thinking, America, Democracy

  "I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 02, 2011.

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  Gary Kemp

  Dad, Thinking, Important

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• I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

  Believe, Sound, Shells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eight, Years, Lasts

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• There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

  Tobey Maguire

  Needs, Actors, Want

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• Because dying for God is a higher pleasure... than living without Him.

  Noah Weinberg

  God, Pleasure, Higher

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• The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Race, Flames, Essence

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