Dying Quotes - Page 31

• As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

  John Stossel

  Persons, Ought, Ifs

  "John Stossel's Beef With the Government Regulating Drugs". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2010.

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• The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Stars, Years, Cities

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• One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Death, Real, Important

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Death

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• Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

  Will Self

  Real, Disease, Littles

  "Will Self: The trouble with my blood" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Mother, Voice

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.6, Delacorte Press

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• How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Sex, Moral, Manners

  Under the Volcano ch. 12 (1947)

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• Death doesn't frighten me.

  Princess Diana

  Death

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• Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

  Michel de Certeau

  Death, Men, Lazy Man

  Michel de Certeau, Steven Rendall (1988). “Arts de Faire”, p.190, Univ of California Press

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• We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

  Gillian Anderson

  Death, Alive

  Yahoo! Chat, www.gilliananderson.ws. May 15, 2001.

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• Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Death, Solitude, Abyss

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• I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.

  Robert Tappan Morris

  Death, Hate, Men

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• I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

  Greg LeMond

  Thinking, Years, Risk

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• And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Doors, House, Unity

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• My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

  Polly Toynbee

  Mother, Doctors, Pills

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

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• I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

  Laura Benanti

  Art, Thinking, Apples

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• Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

  Christopher Cross

  Lying, Light, Surrender

  "Interview With Christopher Cross Upon Release Of New Album 'Doctor Faith'". CBS-FM Interview, kearth101.cbslocal.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

  Gloria Allred

  Giving Up, Struggle, Painful Death

  "Gloria Allred's Fighting Spirit" by Leslie Bennetts, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 1, 2010.

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• I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

  Hugo Chavez

  Christian, Jesus, Children

  "Chavez reveals personal side, criticizes U.S.", www.cnn.com. September 25, 2009.

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• The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Skeletons, Waiting, President

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• The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

  Mike Gravel

  Soldier, Vietnam, Vain

  Mike Gravel's speech at the 2008 Democratic primary Presidential debate in Orangeburg, South Carolina, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Oncologists, Patient, Treatment

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• One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Art, Gun, Shapes

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

  Sheena Easton

  School, Spears, Stills

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  Abel Ferrara

  Talking, Fans, Bigs

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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