Dying Quotes - Page 39

• The general opinion of “Revenge of the Sith” seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones.” True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.

  Anthony Lane

  Revenge, Two, Way

  "Space Case". www.newyorker.com. May 23, 2005.

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• Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.

  Marcia Angell

  Long, Effort, Grace

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

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• Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.

  Ryan Coogler

  Taken, Gun, People

  "Fruitvale Station's success a 'surprise' for first-time director Ryan Coogler" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2013.

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• Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.

  Peter Heller

  Night, Life And Death, Waiting

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.68, Vintage

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• Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Determination, Men

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• We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Summer, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.37

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• It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1012, Delphi Classics

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• Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. But don't die alone. Let your dying be reciprocal. This is what is meant by equality. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Law, Rights

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.

  John Armstrong

  Pain, Air, Cities

  John Armstrong, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson”, p.25

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• Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

  Stephen King

  Growing, Talent, Static

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• Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Lasts, Privilege

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Lips, Mines

  Matthew Arnold (1961). “Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold”, Houghton Mifflin College Division

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• Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Children, Hate

  Song: Fixin' To Die Blues, Album: Bob Dylan, 1962

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• I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Want, Toes, Poet

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• Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.

  Francois Fenelon

  Men, Heaven, Too Much

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.

  Woody Allen

  Running, Block, Talking

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• L'ide  e qu'on mourra est plus cruelle que mourir, mais moins que l'ide  e qu'un autre est mort. The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.

  Marcel Proust

  Ideas, Plus, Died

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• The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.

  Will Rogers

  Stars, Sleep, Self

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• I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

  Arnold Palmer

  Cancer, Fighting, Thinking

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• About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Death, Lying, Home

  "Selling Death" by Lewis Lapham, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

  Yukio Mishima

  Goes On, Kind, Boring

  "Ken" (1963) (translation by John Bester)

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• Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Brother, Lying

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• I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

  Sidney Poitier

  Years, Catholic, Today

  "Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier". O Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com.

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• I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

  Terry Bradshaw

  People, Miserable, My Family

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• Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.

  Ellen G. White

  Air, People, Appreciate

  Ellen G. White (1999). “All About Herbs, Charcoal, Medications, and Drugs: A Spirit of Prophecy Compilation”, p.393, Digital Inspiration

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