"Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick."
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"Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?"
"Thus we live, forever taking leave."
"I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."
"They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought."
"You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own."
"Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living."
"The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying."
"Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out."
"I think what's actually happened is print media is becoming obsolete, and this is like the floundering corpse of a dying media. It is just twitching."
"I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less."
"He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet."
"I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts."
"Let's cool it, brothers."
"But the peasants - how do the peasants die?"
"From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is."
"I die hard but am not afraid to go."
"The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for."
"Does nobody understand?"
"What shall he fear that does not fear death."