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Dying Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the…
- It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being…
- You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how…
- Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only…
- Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is…
- Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and…
- What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate…
More Dying Quotes
- 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