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I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying. -- Patti Davis
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. -- Indira Gandhi
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. -- Heraclitus
Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize. -- Eda LeShan
Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable. -- Rod McKuen
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. -- Johnny Cash
My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight. Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds. -- Kelly Price
Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying. -- Terry Teachout
Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory. -- Cicely Saunders
When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying. -- Pierce Brosnan
Dying is a wild night and a new road. -- Emily Dickinson
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. -- Michel de Montaigne
Death belongs to the dying and those who love them. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life. -- Edwin Arnold
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. -- Derek Jarman
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. -- Taylor Caldwell
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. -- Isaac Asimov
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. -- Walt Whitman
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. -- Polly Toynbee
I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death. -- Jean Harris
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to. -- Edmund White
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. -- Polly Toynbee
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. -- Jerry Garcia
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. -- Francis Beaumont
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. -- Emile M. Cioran
Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death -- Jhonen Vasquez
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. -- Gloria Allred
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. -- Jean Paul
I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing. -- Simon McBurney
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. -- Sophocles
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. -- Aleister Crowley
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. -- Jesse Jackson
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come... -- William Shakespeare
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know. -- Stanislav Grof
As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer. -- Tom Araya
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. -- Karen Armstrong
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
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time. -- Banksy
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. -- Kurt Cobain
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest. -- Florynce Kennedy
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. -- John Steinbeck
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
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. -- Thomas Wolfe
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death. -- Ray Winstone
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. -- Anais Nin
But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death. -- Robert Jay Lifton
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. -- Frank Dobson
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
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. -- Eric Cantona
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death: a refusal to properly care for dementia sufferers, even when they are violent, and an equal inability to care for their carers. My dad died of dementia, but also because dying was the easiest way to treat him. -- Rose George
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. -- Stephen Chbosky
Try and blow my cake, just know that's a death wish. -- Big Sean
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there -- Richard Bach
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings -- Horace
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden -- Michel de Montaigne
When you die that doesn't mean you lost to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live. -- Stuart Scott
Life will come our way, it has only just begun The world will die alone, the frail will fall below Time will take our place, we return it back to one The calm before the cold, the long and lonely road. -- Breaking Benjamin
Looking at Death, is Dying - ... -- Emily Dickinson
Only death rescues us from dying. -- Mason Cooley
Death frees from the fear of dying -- Paulo Coelho
Fear of death is worse than dying. -- Friedrich Schiller
The only death I fear is dying ignorant. -- Steven Erikson
Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. -- Annie Lennox
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. -- Augustus Hare
Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying. -- Oliver North
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death. -- Margot Asquith
If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death? -- Laozi
Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does. -- Isabelle Eberhardt
I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death. -- Thomas Nagel
Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for? -- Cesar Nascimento
I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs. -- Mattie Stepanek
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. -- Anita Moorjani
if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned. -- Enid Bagnold
Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for~? -- Cesar Nascimento
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. -- Henry Fielding
I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying. -- Alfred Bester
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. -- Haruki Murakami
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. -- E. L. Doctorow
If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final. -- Cyndi Lauper
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. -- Evgeny Morozov
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying -- Thomas Paine
Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. -- Peter Diamandis
I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad. -- Claire Forlani
DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. -- Terry Pratchett
...the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death. -- Socrates trans. G.M.A. Grube
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying. -- John Dryden
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying. -- Francis Quarles
Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever. -- Ellen Pompeo
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. -- Stanislav Grof
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. -- Penn Jillette
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase. -- Clive Barnes
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates. -- Erma Bombeck
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots, -- Walt Whitman
You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying. -- Cheryl Strayed
Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me. -- Stephen Rea
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject. -- Thomas Paine
Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying! -- William Gurnall
We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived. -- Harold S. Kushner
The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. -- Jackie French
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not. -- Hanya Yanagihara
In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford. -- Jack Vance
Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned. -- Walter Abendroth
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
Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death. -- Ala Bashir
Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying. -- Nick Nolte
Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. ("Death Ship") -- Richard Matheson
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. -- Terence McKenna
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy. -- Edward Abbey
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event. -- J. B. Priestley
Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death... -- Georges Rodenbach
Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love. -- Hermann Hesse
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. -- Geoffrey Canada
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