Dying Quotes - Page 9

• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

  Claire Forlani

  Mother, Daughter, Play

  "Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.

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• Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Two, Important

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• What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice, Gentleman, Chairs

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• Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

  Rumi

  Death, Afterlife, Religion

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

  John Muir

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Life, Time, Way

  "A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.

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• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

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  After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Suicide, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

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• It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Literature, Affection

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

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• If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heartbreak, I Love You More, Eye

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Shift”, p.243, MIRA

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• Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Emotional

  "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Death, Real, Men

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Death, Spiritual

  Death Comes for the Archbishop bk. 9 (1927)

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• You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

  Jon Crosby

  Song, Real, Moving

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• No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Rocks, Tree

  'A slumber did my spirit seal' (1800)

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• When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

  Jim Carrey

  Death, Pieces, Someone You Love

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• The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

  Jean Paul

  Death, Twilight, Darkness

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• And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

  Christina Rossetti

  Death, Sweet, Wind

  "The Complete Works of Christina Rossetti".

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• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

  Jonathan Swift

  Death, Evil, Impossible

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous”, p.56

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• It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

  Henry Fielding

  Death, Goodbye, Farewell

  Amelia bk. 3, ch. 4 (1751)

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• He not busy being born is busy dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Happy Birthday, Music

  "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

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• I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.

  Jackson Pollock

  Death, Sleep, Thinking

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