Dying Quotes - Page 18

• I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Believe, Knowing, Alive

  "Synecdoche, New York". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Comfort, Lessons, Faces

  Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

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• To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

  George Cheyne

  Heart, Animal, Practice

  "An Essay on Regimen: Together with Five Discourses, Medical, Moral, and Philosophical". Book by George Cheyne, 1740.

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• I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.

  Lena Dunham

  Regret, Should Have, Laughing

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.135, Random House

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• Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Thinking, Hands, Your Side

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• Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Home, Recovery, Men

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Teton Sioux, The Yanktonai, The Assiniboin”, p.88, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

  Jennifer Echols

  Live Your Life, Worried, Ifs

  Jennifer Echols (2009). “Going Too Far”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

  Julius Lester

  Important, Doe, Wells

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• Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Atoms, Feels

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• But God's love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might have life, so that no more would we have to die in depression, anger or pain. He loved people back to life. He would go anywhere, talk to anyone. And wherever He went, He would stop for the one-- the forgotten one, the one who was rejected, outcast, sick, even stone dead. Even a thief who was dying for his crimes on the cross next to Him. In the Kingdom of God's love there is no sinner who cannot come home.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Pain, Home

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• Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Stopping, Ministry

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• Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.

  Charles Sheffield

  Running, Home, Thinking

  Charles Sheffield (1992). “Brother to Dragons”

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• Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.

  Jennifer Worth

  Men, Holy Ground, Space

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• For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free

  John G. Lake

  Pay The Price, Suffering, Cost

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• There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Children, Men, People

  "Battles rage across West Bank", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2002.

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• My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.

  Jon Foreman

  Needs, Looks, Body

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• Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

  Marianne Williamson

  Looks, Born, Do Not Fear

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• The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

  Antonio Gramsci

  Struggle, Monsters, World

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• One of the biggest lessons I learned from nearly dying of cancer is the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, learning to love and accept myself unconditionally is what healed me and brought me back from the brink of death.

  Anita Moorjani

  Cancer, Lessons, Facts

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Mar 27, 2016

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• Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  John C. Broger

  Jesus, Children, Biblical

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• At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

  Os Guinness

  Jesus, Men, Agony

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• Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

  Red Smith

  Bigs, Tricks, Deals

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• Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

  William S. Burroughs

  Powerful, War, Knowing

  "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (A One God Universe)". Studio album by William S. Burroughs with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, September 28, 1993.

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• Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death.
  Because this death releases you into real life.
  You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

  Mooji

  Beautiful, Real, Attachment

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• Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

  Patricia Ryan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Language

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