When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade… — Steve Gleason Copy Share Image
It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job.… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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
“Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death? — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant.… — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
