Dying Quotes - Page 29

• To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner do they see the light of the world, stretching their longing heads out from the cracks in the snow, than they are instantly nipped off. For these plants isn't the sorrow as deep as that of the child's parents whose child had accidentally died? They say everything in the plant and tree kingdom attains Buddhahood. Then they, too, must have Buddha-nature.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Death, Children, Spring

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• Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Easier, Crosses, Harder

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• Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Winning, Order

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• It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted.

  Alfred de Musset

  Pain, Rain, Men

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.45, tredition

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• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Sky

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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• But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Thinking, Vices, World

  The Loved One ch. 9 (1948)

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• The moment of Jesus' greatest glory was on the cross, dying as our substitute.

  Rich Nathan

  Jesus, Moments, Glory

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• As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Pregnancy, White

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• Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great metal plates to their destination. People complain about their crappy lives working in an air conditioned work place, imagine having this as your only option in life.

  G.M.B. Akash

  Air, Hands, People

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• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  Brad Blanton

  Crazy, Emotional, Attachment

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

  Pete Earley

  Real, Jail, People

  "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". "On the Road with Lizzie Simon", www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

  Plato

  Acting, Chance, Action

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• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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• If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Death, Men, Order

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

  Eric Hoffer

  Death, Real, Believe

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Respect, Young, Old Fashioned

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

  Ovid

  Believe, Mean, Different

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• Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
  The wretch, concentred all in self,
  Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
  And, doubly dying, shall go down
  To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
  Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

  Walter Scott

  Groundhog Day, Self, Dust

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 6, st. 1 (1805)

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• I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Twenties

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• Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

  Robert Quillen

  Years, Differences, Pay

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• My family, my friends, and skiing... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for.

  C. R. Johnson

  Joy, Skiing, My Family

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• I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart

  Madonna Ciccone

  Lonely, War, Book

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• Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Saint, Want

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• When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

  Kajol

  Mother, Book, Memorable

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• There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Death, Men, Differences

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