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Dying Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to…
- [...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or…
- Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the…
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- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot
- All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
- I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter