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“You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.”

Thinking Country Dies Dying

Author:Anatole France

“Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)”

Dies Knowing One Thing Dying Ships

Book:The Best of Richard Matheson

Source: The Best of Richard Matheson

“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source: The decline of the West

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”

Giving Dies Fighting Fear Pay Dying Weakness Breaths Folly Destroying Foe

Book:The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

“Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.”

Want Giving Littles Doe Stills Dies Left Nations Generations Blood Dying Birth Genocide Heroic Wanting To Die Armenians Armenia Armenian Genocide

Author:Anatole France

“Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.”

World Feels Doe Moments Age Action Dies Enemy Path Alive Dying Possibility Comfort Battle Old Age Attractive Shy Midst Bullets Thrill Gangsters Lure Proximity

Book:Gangster

Source: Gangster

“You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.”

Knows Needs Age Purpose Dies Grows Results Dying Age Of 20

Book:The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

Source: The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.”

Ifs Feels Earth Mother Dies Dying Wave Disappear Mother Earth

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.”

Men Death Dies Dying Lucky Fortune Happy Not Happy

Author:Herodotus

“For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.”

Men Death Dies Courage Dying Philosopher Courageous Courageous Man

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“How sweet to die after one's enemies.”

Death Dies Enemy Dying Sweet Hatred Revenge

Book:Chief Plays of Corneille

Source: Chief Plays of Corneille

“I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.”

Ifs Dies Choices Lost Waiting Loses Dying

Book:Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah

Source: Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah

“A love that dies has never lived.”

Love Death Dies Dying Illusion

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.”

Knows Death Dies Fighting Knowing Dying Ignorance Medicine

Author:Ardel Wray

“I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.”

Ifs Home Might Would Be Today Earth Dies Next Opportunity Waiting Space Views Technology Records Dying Tomorrow Moon Hanging Out Next Day Coming Back Back Home Outer Space Waiting Around

Author:Ariel Pink

“I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."”

Thinking Ends Film Dies Three Parent Watches Dying Mom Scene Harder Died Down And My Mom

Author:Garrett Hedlund

“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”

Ifs Wells Dies Hours Dying Lunch

Author:Epictetus

“The dying boy said: " Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus and tell Him that ever since I can remember you have tried to lead me to Him." I would rather have my children say that of me after I am gone; or if they die before me, I would rather they should take that message to the Master than to have a monument over me reaching to the skies.”

Ifs Should Children Said I Can Remember Dies Father Jesus Heaven Boys Gone Sky Dying Masters Messages My Children Reaching Monument Remember You Remembers You Leading Me

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.”

Want Romance Dies Wonder Dying Worship Back Again

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“These have not the hope to die.”

Death Dies Dying

Author:Dante Alighieri

“my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could”

Ifs Used Mother Dies Courses Father Talking Dying Bravery Privilege Etcetera

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of science and warfare. If by chance we are meant to end life in our beds, we are whisked like pox victims to the nearest hospital, where we are kept as alone and unaware as possible of the approach of disintegration.”

Ifs Ends Happens Dies Chance Dying Bed Quiet Approach Victim Familiar Thanks Hospitals Warfare Chamber Disintegration Pox

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.”

People Should Children Able Together Death Order Dies Parent Family Fantasy Grace Generations Dying Old People Utopian

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.”

America Dies Found Born United States Dying Ready West Rebirth Born Again Ready To Die

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.”

Men Hands Suffering Dies Mystery Dying Bed Accounts

Book:Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Source: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

“People don't die from suicide, they die from sadness.”

People Dies Sadness Dying Suicide

Author:Timothy Long

“I was never born, I didnt die.”

Dies Born Dying

Author:Abhay Kumar

“My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.”

Life Looks Children Dies Morning Our Lives Wife Dying My Wife Get Up My Children Look At Me

Author:Bikram Choudhury

“I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die. And rows and rows and rows of people just dying and the waiting rooms of the hospitals are full of people waiting to get into the beds of the people who died the night before, and they're dying from unnecessary diseases.”

People Night Dies Waiting Rooms Dying Bed Disease Died Hospitals Unnecessary Waiting Rooms

Author:Richard Branson

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

Men Truth Death Dies Born Dying Philosophical Every Man Deep Thought

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.”

Art Dies Grows Meditation Dying Ego Shocked

Author:Rajneesh

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?".”

People Needs Dies Dying Calling Extraordinary Loyalty Before I Die Need Money

Author:Anne Waldman

“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”

People Want Play Death Dies Music Dying Freak

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.”

Thinking Knows Children Important Facts Lasts Dies Sky Dying Our Children Refuse Your Children Serenity Last Words Ceremony

Author:Christian Boltanski

“Only the young die good.”

Young Death Dies Dying Die Young Someone Dying Dying Love

Book:The Complete Cynic

Source: The Complete Cynic

“To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.”

Persons Death Dies Forget Dying Forgotten

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“Thus it is in hell; they would die, but they cannot. The wicked shall be always dying but never dead; the smoke of the furnacedascends for ever and ever. Oh! who can endure thus to be ever upon the rack? This word "ever" breaks the heart. Wicked men do now think the Sabbaths long, and think a prayer long; but oh! how long will it be to lie in hell for ever and ever?”

Thinking Men Heart Long Christian Lying Dies Prayer Break Hell Dying Blessing Endure Christian Life Smoke Wicked Sabbath Racks Chastisement Wicked Man

Author:Thomas Watson

“A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.”

Way Death Dies Dying Picks Chaps

Author:John Towner Williams

“It is natural to die as to be born.”

Death Dies Born Natural Dying

Author:Francis Bacon

“Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!”

Believe Heart Whole Dies I Believe Hours Moral Democracy Dying Ready Blessing Judgment Ethics Independence This Life Sentiments Stakes Declaration Moral Ethics

Author:John Adams

“There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.”

Form Life Is Death Dies Taken Dying Arise Decay Remnants Death Nature

Author:Charles Mackay

“The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.”

Ifs Life Use Young Dies Dying Be Good Death And Dying Dying Death Die Young

Author:John Barrymore

“We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.”

Death Dies Too Much Dying Months Checks Vulgar

Author:John Osborne

“I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."”

People Thinking Believe Whole Light Dies Stuff Process White Brain Dying Evidence Hello Emergencies Circuits White Light Empirical Evidence

Author:Stephen King

“I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!”

People Feels Real Facts Dies Gone Successful Violence Magic Dying Tricks Magic Tricks

Author:Eli Roth

“I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.”

Ifs Dies Acting Dying Preparation Emphasis Acting As If

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.”

Want Humans Wells Children Done Facts Dies House Knowing Tree Dying Expectations Plant Species Damn Human Species Plant A Tree

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.”

Ifs Knows Men Important Might Would Be Dies Left Four Dying Missing He Man Needed Findings Ordinary Concerned Decided Experts One Man Meaningless Appointments Ordinary Man Knocked Down

Author:William McIlvanney

“Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today, I can die for something. My way, my choice.”

Way Want I Can Hard Reason Today Dies Choices Differences Alive Dying China My Way Wanting To Die Staying Alive

Author:Jack Bauer