"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to
the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the
humble work."
~ Mother Teresa
"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold
on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."
~ Lao Tzu
"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity
is easy. Stay away from easy."
~ Scott Alexander
"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own
dying."
~ Martin Luther
"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death."
~ Socrates
"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to
sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more
terrible than dying."
~ Joan of Arc
"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
~ George Bernard Shaw
"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom:
therefore they do not believe in dying completely."
~ Albert Camus
"In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following
their blood rather than their brains."
~ Nelson Mandela
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.
Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I
say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."
~ Pope Paul VI
"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a
time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."
~ Stewart Alsop
"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."
~ Marcus Aurelius
"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at
the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether
something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for
their country."
~ Bertrand Russell
"I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that
person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit
with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but
really be there with them."
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the
silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither
frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the
body."
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
~ Albert Schweitzer
"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it
so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've
a call."
~ Sylvia Plath
"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
~ Epicurus
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend
worth dying for."
~ Homer
"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
~ Emily Dickinson
"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an
environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying...
Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share
the human condition and die."
~ Ivan Illich
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought
or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death
brings no pleasure on the world."
~ John Steinbeck
"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of
our physical lives on this earth."
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves
to circumstances."
~ Samuel Butler
"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if
all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying."
~ Simone de Beauvoir
"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the
battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
~ Otto von Bismarck
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of
importance, it lasts so short a time."
~ Samuel Johnson
"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and
hoping all."
~ William Butler Yeats
"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
~ Michel de Montaigne
"It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows
faint, it is because we ourselves are dying."
~ Marcel Proust
"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that
the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in
my dying."
~ Indira Gandhi
"There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the
practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment."
~ Stanislav Grof
"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
~ Thomas Mann
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging
day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
~ Stephen Vincent Benét
"...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are
dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the
fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can
grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings."
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
"Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain
than the time of dying"
~ Thomas Paine
"The conscience of the dying belies their life."
~ Luc de Clapiers
"For a person who is dying only eternity counts."
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
"Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable
experiential training for dying."
~ Stanislav Grof
"A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a
vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know."
~ Stanislav Grof
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