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Dying Quotes

"Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Dying, Training

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"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

Dying, Fame, Want

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"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."

Philip Roth, American Novelist

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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."

Kate Smith, American Musician

"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

Dying, Earth, End

"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."

John Thorn, American Historian

"The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse."

Mike Gravel, American Politician

Dying, Right, Soldiers, Vietnam

"She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal."

Thomas Nelson Page, American Writer

"I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini."

Brooke Burke, American Model

Dying, Open, Want, Years

"For a person who is dying only eternity counts."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

Dying, Eternity

"Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible."

Jane Grey Swisshelm, American Journalist

"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."

Evelyn Waugh, English Author

Dying, Quotation, Vice, World

"Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition."

Nicholas D. Kristof, American Writer

"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."

Christina Rossetti, British Poet

"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Dying, Killing, Living, Nothing

"I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy."

Holly Valance, Australian Musician

"He that lives to live forever, never fears dying."

William Penn, English Leader

"I'd rather be dead than dying."

Stephen Evans, American Editor

"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple."

Damien Hirst, British Artist

Dying, Smoking, Suicide

"Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene."

Brian Setzer, American Musician

"My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

"It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying."

Christy Turlington, American Model

Dying, Quitting, Smoking

"Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!"

Raymond Smullyan, American Mathematician

"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Dying, Moon, Old, Will

"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

Dying, Fighting, Giving, Relatives

"It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying."

Herve Villechaize, French Actor

"Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon."

Carrie Donovan, American Editor

Dying, Entertainment, Fashion, Kids

"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for."

Margaret Mitchell, American Novelist

Dying, Fighting, Land, World

"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

"Living is what scares me. Dying is easy."

Charles Manson, American Criminal

"I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked."

George Burns, American Comedian

"If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her."

Sheena Easton, Scottish Musician

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

"As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy."

Harry Johnston, British Explorer

Dying, Trouble, Winter

"I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

"It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger."

Tom Holt, British Novelist

"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

John Berger, English Artist

"A person starts dying when they stop dreaming."

Brian Williams, American Journalist

"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Dying, End, Man, Sun

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."

Norman Mailer, American Novelist

Dying, Existence, Living

"There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it."

Johnny Rotten, English Musician

"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."

Alan Lomax, American Writer

"I'm dying always."

Jessye Norman, American Musician

"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."

Morrie Schwartz, American Educator

"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Director

Dying, Existence

"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."

Christopher Plummer, Canadian Actor

"Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information."

Zach Wamp, American Politician

Dying, Information, Kids, Needs

"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."

Woody Allen, American Director

"A closed mind is a dying mind."

Edna Ferber, American Novelist

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