Dying Quotes - Page 35

• So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, Writing, Two

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• Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

  John Stossel

  Country, Choices, Limits

  "John Stossel's Plan to Abolish the FDA Should Be Laughed Out of Town". www.cbsnews.com. March 1, 2010.

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• The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Stars, Years, Cities

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• One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Death, Real, Important

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

  Will Self

  Real, Disease, Littles

  "Will Self: The trouble with my blood" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Mother, Voice

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.6, Delacorte Press

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• Death doesn't frighten me.

  Princess Diana

  Death

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• Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Death, Solitude, Abyss

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• I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

  Robert Tappan Morris

  Death, Hate, Men

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• I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

  Greg LeMond

  Thinking, Years, Risk

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• And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Doors, House, Unity

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• My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

  Polly Toynbee

  Mother, Doctors, Pills

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

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• Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

  Christopher Cross

  Lying, Light, Surrender

  "Interview With Christopher Cross Upon Release Of New Album 'Doctor Faith'". CBS-FM Interview, kearth101.cbslocal.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

  Gloria Allred

  Giving Up, Struggle, Painful Death

  "Gloria Allred's Fighting Spirit" by Leslie Bennetts, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Oncologists, Patient, Treatment

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• One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Art, Gun, Shapes

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  Abel Ferrara

  Talking, Fans, Bigs

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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