Dying Quotes
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Get busy living or get busy dying.
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Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
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As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
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...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.
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The sealing industry is dying.
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
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Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.
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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.
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Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another. Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act. We've also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying. The term "cultural-universal" is a complicated one, but I've heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.
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Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.
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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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I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.
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We live a dying dream, If you know what I mean...
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If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
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I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.
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I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.
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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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Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.
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The fact is that news is about things that are new. People dying in Africa is not new, but people being swept out to sea, killed in five minutes from a big wave that came up the beach, that is new.
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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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The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
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I was dying when you came.
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I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
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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.
