"I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight."
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"Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine."
"Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died."
"We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species."
"And anything worth dying for"
"Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left."
"At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one."
"We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan."
"She was scared. Scared of dying."
"Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight."
"Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely."
"The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!"
"I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway."
"We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!"
"The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone."
"Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse."
"Rage, rage against the dying light"
"I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying."
"We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying."
"And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive."