Dying Quotes - Page 15

• Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

  Martin Luther

  Death, Faith, Loneliness

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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.

  Judy Davis

  Kids, Parent, Age

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• I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.

  Holly Valance

  Crazy, Missing, Cameras

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• There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

  Lawrence Korb

  Numbers, Training, Violence

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• Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Song, Age, Growing

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2008). “Early Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

  Gore Vidal

  Death, World, Murder

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections upon a sinking ship”

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• The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Grief, Loving You

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

  Agnes Smedley

  Death

  Agnes Smedley (1975). “Battle Hymn of China”

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• The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Death, Men, Self

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• Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.

  Bill Musselman

  Death, Definitions, Defeat

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• As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Justice, Honor

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• Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

  Virginia Woolf

  Death, Men, Giving

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• Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

  Edmund Gwenn

  Comedy, Easy, Hard

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• How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

  William Gaddis

  Book, Blessing, Boredom

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• 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

  People, Talent, Desperate

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• Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

  Anais Nin

  Death, Sister In Law, Backstabbing

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• During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Government, Doe

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.149, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Death, Men, Heaven

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• Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Death, Elephants, Car

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

  Edward Hoagland

  God, Earth, May

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Sex, Europe, Ideas

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• I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

  Thom Gunn

  Cutting, Age, Growing

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• I am dying of hunger.

  Klaus Kinski

  Hunger

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