Dying Quotes
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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.
Brad Blanton
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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.
James Purefoy
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I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
Thomas Nagel
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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.
Tony Kushner
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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.
William Golding
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At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and 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
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There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.
Raul Julia
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So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.
Terence McKenna
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Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.
Elaine Stritch
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Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.
Lobsang Tenzin
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There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.
Emily V. Gordon
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I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying
Jay-Z
