I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand. — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, 'What a blessing it is to die in your own… — Anita Rau Badami Copy Share Image
When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow,… — Tom Preston-Werner Copy Share Image
“I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
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
Will only looked at her. There had been light in his eyes on the stairs, as he'd locked the door, when he'd… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“I am leery of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain? — Sophocles Copy Share Image
One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as… — Hannah Copy Share Image
I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
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