"When you know that something is dying inside……" — Robert Silverberg
"When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment."
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Robert Silverberg
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15 Quotes by Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg has 15 quotes on this site.
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Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.
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My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.
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Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which…
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Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
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Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures…
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I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
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Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.
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Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
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The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they…
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Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that…
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There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly…
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It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something…
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More Dying Quotes
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one of 3,128 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a…
— Brigitte Bardot
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
— Richard Baxter
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