Dying Quotes - Page 23

• I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.

  William T. Vollmann

  Jobs, Book, Angel

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• Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Home, Simple

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do dying people never shed tears?

  Max Frisch

  Death, People, Tears

  Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates

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• Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

  Roger Ebert

  Death, Thinking, Knowing

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• Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Mother, Encouragement, Son

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• There's a buzz to failing and not dying.

  Stephen Colbert

  Failure, Buzz, Failing

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• I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time.

  Queen Latifah

  People, Black, Clauses

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• We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are.

  Ruby Dee

  Spiritual, Party, Struggle

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• Money is not the issue. Having the courage to give your highest gift is the issue.
  There is no security in doing something for a living when you are dying inside while doing it. That is taking care of the body at the expense of the soul. And a withering soul cannot help but produce a withering body.
  So do not think you are 'taking care of yourself' by killing your spirit to keep your body alive.
  How long will you put off what you are dying to do?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Issues, Long

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jul 11, 2014

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• Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

  Dean Ornish

  Joy, Fear Of Dying, Joy Of Living

  Dean Ornish, M.D. (2007). “The Spectrum: How to Customize a Way of Eating and Living Just Right for You and Your Family”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• To work is to live without dying.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Work

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I am not writing, I'm dying.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing

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• Write as if you are dying.

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Ifs

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• My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Husband, Boredom

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

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• One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Waiting, Wages

  1609 Hermione. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.94-5.

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• The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Water, Physicians

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• The moment you stop learning you're dying.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Moments

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 29, 2013

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• I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

  David Brainerd

  Fire, Glowing, Flames

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• One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

  S. N. Goenka

  Art, Moments, Masters

  S. N. Goenka (2012). “Discourse Summaries”, Pariyatti Publishing

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• When I was sick, I didn't want to die.
  When I race, I don't want to lose.
  Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Race, Sick, Want

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• I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

  Frida Kahlo

  Flower, Paint

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• Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Firsts, Christ, Logical

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• The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Trying, Crafts

  "Toolkit | Meet the Woodstock Film Festival Programmers (In Their Own Words)" by Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

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  Ram Dass

  Moments, Detachment, Allowing

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.65, Sounds True

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• The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.

  Bill Gates

  Death, Eye, Media

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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