Dying quotations

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◆ Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

- John Green99

◆ Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.

- Kristin Cashore98

◆ It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

- Mitch Albom98

◆ We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

- Chuck Klosterman98

◆ I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

- Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez98

◆ Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

- Dorothy Allison98

◆ when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

- Sogyal Rinpoche98

◆ She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

- Tonya Hurley98

◆ And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

- Mark Doty98

◆ I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.' There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)

- Stephen Levine98

◆ Yeah.You got me through

- Alyxandra Harvey98

◆ Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

- Thomas Paine98

◆ The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

- T.S. Eliot98

◆ How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

- Stephen Levine98

◆ I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love.

- Stephen Levine98