Dying Quotes
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Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.
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Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.
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Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.
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Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.
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I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
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When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.
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Because dying for God is a higher pleasure... than living without Him.
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As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.
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This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.
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Only an adult with dying dreams can appreciate how awesome it is to have a dog.
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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.
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I believe a child dying between a couple either makes you stronger, or it doesn't.
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The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.
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We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.
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Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
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In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.
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If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
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There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
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I cannot keep a clock or a watch. They stop on me. Why won't time stay peacefully on my wrist? Is time not interested in me any more because I am dying?
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I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.
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I think my biggest fear is dying. Although sometimes my biggest fear is not dying. But yeah, I think health stuff for me is more what I'm afraid of.
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I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
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If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
