Dying Quotes - Page 2

• I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

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  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  People, Who Cares, Want

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• I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Men, Care

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [253].

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• Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Virtue, Inscriptions

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

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• There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

  Elias Canetti

  Earth, Ugly, Today

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• I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking

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• Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

  Colin Mochrie

  Rivers, Fish Tanks, Wells

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

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• Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

  Raymond Smullyan

  Lifetime, Worried, Should

  Raymond Smullyan (1986). “This Book Needs No Title: A Budget of Living Paradoxes”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

  Kate Smith

  Years, White, Nurse

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• Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

  Polly Toynbee

  Care, Aspect, Openness

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Talking, People, Study

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• If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

  Ron Dellums

  America, People, Generations

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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

  Children, Talking, People

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• To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Sex, Ambition, Independence

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• The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

  Polly Toynbee

  Earth, Care, Ends

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• Stage performing is a dying art form.

  Ronnie Spector

  Art, Form, Stage

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 22, 1999.

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• It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying.

  Herve Villechaize

  Hurt, It Hurts

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• I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

  Ted Lange

  Character, Henry V, Lead Characters

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• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Hippie, Patriotic

  Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”

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  O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love You, Love Life, Generosity

  Francis of Assisi (2017). “St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers”, p.72, Paper & Ink

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• I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

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  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Rest In Peace, Children

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

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• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

  Joseph Addison

  Death, People, Demise

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.458

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• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Believe

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.636

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• The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Change, Death, Giving

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1984). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, William Morrow & Company

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• It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life, Death, Sex

  'Le deuxiéme sexe' (1949) pt. 2, ch. 4

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