Dying Quotes

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  We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Life, Thinking, Dying Slowly

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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  Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Borders, Birth

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

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• If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Strength, Art, Tired

  "Saulo Ribeiro: 'We Should Drop The 'Brazilian' in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu'". Jits Magazine Interview (translated from French), www.bjjee.com. February 11, 2016.

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• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, People, Deep Thought

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• Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Death

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 9, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Death, Hate, Thinking

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Opposites, People, Scared

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• Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Believe, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.291, Vintage

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• If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Passion, Exclusion

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Death, Wise, Men

  'Fables' bk. 8 (1678-9) 'La Mort et le Mourant'.

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• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Funny, Death, Party

  "As I Journey on: Meditations for Those Facing Death". Book by Cindy Rogers and Sharon Dardis, 2000.

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• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Death, Peace, War

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• The world is the mirror of myself dying.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Mirrors, Literature

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

  George Sand

  Death, Journey, Goal

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• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Death, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.592, Pearson Education

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• In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Vices, World, Quotations

  The Loved One ch. 9 (1948)

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• In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Beautiful, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Wolfe, Francis E. Skipp (1989). “The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fear, Animal, Men

  The Winding Stair (1929) "Death"

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• For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Hypocrisy, Dies

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 3, st. 37 (1898)

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• One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Stars, Fear, Successful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

  Leon Edel

  Death, House, Mind

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