Someone Dying Quotes - Page 3

• When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.

  John H Richardson

  Animal, Simple, Dying

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

  Jackson Browne

  Long, Dying, Cry

  Song: How Long, Album: World in Motion, 1989

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• It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Hands, Walking Hand In Hand, Dying

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Dying, Answers, Life After Death

  E.L. Doctorow (2009). “Homer & Langley: A Novel”, p.101, Random House

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• Will only looked at her. There had been light in his eyes on the stairs, as he'd locked the door, when he'd kissed her--a brilliant, joyous light. And it was going now, fading like the last breath of someone dying. She thought of Nate, bleeding to death in her arms. She had been powerless then, to help him. As she was now. She felt as if she were watching the life bleed out of Will Herondale, and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Light, Doors

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• Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Death, Men, Darkness

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• As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Goal, Death And Dying, Salzburg

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

  William Penn

  Death, Grief, Sea

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.183

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• Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

  Robert Bolt

  Birthday, Death, Dying

  "A Man For All Seasons (Act II)". Play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More, July 1, 1960.

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• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Death, Men

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics

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• No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Death, Suicide, Dying

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• Only the young die good.

  Oliver Herford

  Death, Dying, Young

  Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.22, BookRix

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• As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Death, Opportunity, Keys

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• I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Death, Dying, Dies

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• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

  Hermann Hesse

  Sympathy, Death, Sweet

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan

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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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