"The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness."
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"There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me."
"Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day."
"What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."
"And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears."
"The creature born is the creature dying."
"Love when it comes, its easy. But when it leaves, its like dying."
"depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."
"The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive."
"If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too."
"Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy."
"Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?"
"To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."
"We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living."
"Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go."
"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
"If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying."
"You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying."
"There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work."
"It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it."