Dying Quotes
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Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever.
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During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?
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My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.
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In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.
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There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.
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America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.
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A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'
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If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.
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Full of years, Sir Frank's body died. The diphtheria which carried him off caused him as much suffering as it would have done an ordinary man; dying was not eased by his unique gift. He slid out into the long darkness - but his consciousness continued unabated in eight other bodies.
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The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they’d only have been sore that somehow you managed to get over their dying at all.
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The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.
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To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.
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We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.
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Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.
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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?
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The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.
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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
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I'm dying for people to let me be funny!
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Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.
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For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.
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In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
