Dying Quotes
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For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.
George A. Romero -
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.
George Washington -
What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.
Saint Basil -
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
Babe Ruth -
We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.
Louise Erdrich
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I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.
Adrian Tomine -
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
Edwin Arnold -
That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living.
Ted Dekker -
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.
D. H. Lawrence -
If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.
N. T. Wright -
Sugarland was a band we started to try to make things better. It was in the aftermath of 9-11; it was in the aftermath of my mother dying... there was a lot of weird stuff that had gone on that made you want to start something good.
Kristian Bush Sugarland
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The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.
Bettany Hughes -
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 -
I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.
Claire Denis -
The world begins and ends with us. Only our consciousness exists, it is everything, and this everything vanishes with it. Dying, we leave nothing. Then why so much fuss around an event that is no such thing?
Emil Cioran -
Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.
N.D. Wilson -
In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.
Lou Holtz
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Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?
Colin Mochrie -
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
Kenneth Branagh -
Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite
P. C. Cast -
There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.
Dikembe Mutombo