Dying Quotes - Page 37

• English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable face of globalization? Do we want to lose the variety of languages and all the rich culture that comes with them?

  Patricia Ryan

  Want, Faces, Connections

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• GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Gps, Doctors, Problem

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.50, Bradt Travel Guides

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• What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it.
  What if we were taught to ponder it and reflect on it and talk about it and enter it and rehearse it and try it on?What if, rather than being cast out and defined by some terminal category, you were identified as someone in the middle of a transformation that could deepen your soul, open your heart, and all the while-even if and particularly when you were dying-you would be supported by and be part of a community?

  Eve Ensler

  Heart, Talking, Ifs And

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• Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Forever, What If, Lucky

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Broken, World

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.143, Charisma Media

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• It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

  Jonathan Weiner

  Lasts, Firsts, Reborn

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• The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Heaven, Soul, Clay

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• Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

  Kurt Cobain

  Thinking, Rocks, Years

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• There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Real, Desire, Battle

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• Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Children, Mean

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

  P. E. Cleator

  Civilization, Crumbling, Mars

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• Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Men, Evil

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 11,

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• Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

  Winston Churchill

  Islands, Years, Vitality

  Winston Churchill (1995). “Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples”, Barnes & Noble

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• Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

  St. Jerome

  Fancy, Eternal

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.273, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Hands, Bless

  'The Spanish Friar' (1681) act 2, sc. 2

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• The soft complaining flute, In dying notes, discovers The woes of hopeless lovers.

  John Dryden

  Complaining, Woe, Flutes

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.141

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• I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.

  Matthew Healy

  Thinking, Opposites, Bored

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• You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sweet, Children, Believe

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.

  Craig Stone

  Healthy, Details, Failing

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• There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.

  Craig Stone

  Names, People, Evil

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• Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Death, Storm, Strange

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Lying, Swans, Water Lily

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.306

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• I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Hurt, Kids, Hands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity with the music. I feel that it's not stealing sales from anyone; it's turning people on to the music.

  Girl Talk

  Moving, Cds, People

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 6, 2008.

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• If Jesus is Lord then the only right response to him is surrender and obedience. He is Savior and he is Lord. We cannot separate his demands from his love. We cannot dissect Jesus and relate only to the parts that we like or need. Christ died so that we could be forgiven for managing our own lives. It would be impossible to thank Christ for dying and yet to continue running our own lives.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Running, Jesus, Would Be

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