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I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Paul was dying of an un-known illness. His wife sat at the bedside comforting him. He looked up and said weakly, I… — Unknow Copy Share Image
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side… — Abram Joseph Ryan Copy Share Image
“Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and… — John Green Copy Share Image
My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have… — Larry King Copy Share Image
I'm an actor that loves to eat on camera. I love it. Something about the act of eating means that you actually… — Grace Lynn Kung Copy Share Image
I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
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Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot… — John Green Copy Share Image
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Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
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Thank you God for giving me such a talent; to smile and talk so sweetly, that nobody could ever doubt what wounding,… — Akila Sultana Copy Share Image
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What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
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English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation –… — Patricia Ryan Copy Share Image
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
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The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
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