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Dying Quotes


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."


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


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


"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."


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


"Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying."


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


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


"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."


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


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


"I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying."


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


"You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that."


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


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


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


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