"Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really)."
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"Worry is yet another side effect of dying."
"I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What."
"Is the labyrinth living or dying?"
"A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction."
"You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict"
"Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come."
"Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining."
"Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!"
"The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny."
"Our deepest calling is not to grow in our knowledge of God. It is to make disciples. Our knowledge will grow -- the Holy Spirit, Jesus promised, will guide us into all truth. But that's not our calling, it is His. Our calling is to prepare the world for Christ's return. The world is not ready yet. And so, we go about introducing a dying world to the Savior of Life. Anything we do toward our own growth must be toward that end."
"If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live."
"If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for."
"If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for."
"There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying."
"People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord."
"One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart."
"Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown."
"I see somebody dying, I pick him up."
"In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn't ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come."