Dying quotes
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"I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more."
"Once you stop learning, you start dying"
"Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die."
"Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality."
"We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ."
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"I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion."
"Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no."
"Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean."
"I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later."
"They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name."
"The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire."
"Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light."
"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love."
"There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love."
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."
"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."
"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
"Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying."
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
"I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead."
"Is it not meningitis?"
"I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me."
"You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass."
"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."
"If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live."
