Dying proverbs

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◆ I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

- Sonya Hartnett98

◆ Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.

- Jenny Downham98

◆ I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

- Lauren DeStefano98

◆ It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

- Victoria Moran98

◆ Life insurance is a dying industry.?

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ The best way to die is when your living

- Alice Hoffman98

◆ How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

- Michael Buckley98

◆ Love is when you love someone's spirit as much as their body, even if their spirit has departed and their body is buried wherever you hid it.

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

- Julia Cameron98

◆ Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

- Samuel Butler98

◆ May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

- Roman Payne98

◆ Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.

- Nenia Campbell98

◆ When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

- Richard Dawkins98

◆ When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

- Ray Bradbury98

◆ Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

- Emm Cole98