Author Topic: ~ Death and Dying Quotes ~  (Read 6267 times)

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #60 on: October 28, 2016, 09:50:24 PM »
[highlight-text]It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Thomas Lord Horder

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« Reply #61 on: October 28, 2016, 09:51:12 PM »
[highlight-text]When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Samuel Butler

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« Reply #62 on: October 28, 2016, 09:52:10 PM »
[highlight-text]I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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« Reply #63 on: October 28, 2016, 09:53:13 PM »
[highlight-text]There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Marcus Aurelius

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« Reply #64 on: October 28, 2016, 09:54:05 PM »
[highlight-text]Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Ambrose Bierce

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« Reply #65 on: October 28, 2016, 09:55:05 PM »
[highlight-text]Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

Archibald MacLeish

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« Reply #66 on: October 28, 2016, 09:55:50 PM »
[highlight-text]Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

George Santayana

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« Reply #67 on: October 28, 2016, 09:56:52 PM »
[highlight-text]At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

Janet Harris

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« Reply #68 on: October 28, 2016, 09:58:31 PM »
[highlight-text]There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.

Charles Mackay

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« Reply #69 on: October 28, 2016, 10:00:01 PM »
[highlight-text]If I was on death row and given one last meal I would ask for a fortune cookie. 'Come on 'long prosperous life!''

Mitch Hedberg

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« Reply #70 on: October 28, 2016, 10:04:27 PM »
[highlight-text]Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

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« Reply #71 on: October 28, 2016, 10:06:32 PM »
[highlight-text]I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

B. F. Skinner

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« Reply #72 on: October 28, 2016, 10:09:21 PM »
[highlight-text]Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

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« Reply #73 on: October 28, 2016, 10:10:55 PM »
[highlight-text]It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'

Dorothy Parker

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« Reply #74 on: October 28, 2016, 10:11:47 PM »
[highlight-text]It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens