“I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep fear for most people. I'm not scared of death but I'm scared of dying scared. Maybe everything else in life comes from those two points: the separation anxiety of childhood and the ultimate fear of dying alone.” PeopleHumansTwoChildhoodDyingHuman NatureAnxietyUltimateScaredSeparationPessimisticFear Of DyingDying AloneScared Of Death Author:Jonathan Trigell
“My first movie was a movie that had a bunch of people dying in it - the typical popcorn movie. That's where I got my start.” PeopleFirstsDyingBunchTypicalPopcornPeople Dying Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“"GG BE." I expressed how a guy's love for his woman is dying out because he is tired of how she lies to him all the time. And the woman in the song is waiting for me to break up with her. You know how some people prefer to get dumped than do the dumping, right? I expressed all this, which could happen to anyone, in a Seungri-like way.” PeopleKnowsWayHappensLyingGuySongWaitingBreakKnow HowDyingTiredDumped Author:Seungri
“It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.” PeopleYearsFactsTodayMillionsDyingSevenFuelPollutionFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Mark Ruffalo
“There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary moments." We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.” PeopleTryingHas BeensMomentsDyingMissingRegretOrdinaryArticlesOrdinary Moments Author:Geneen Roth
“The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'” PeopleIfsWantTryingHelpingRememberParentUnderstandingDyingAskingHelping OthersRight ThingDoing The Right ThingUnderstanding Why Author:Sandra Bullock
“I loved our music discussion. I live for discussions like that. It's my favorite thing because it means that people care about music, and actually have an opinion. I feel like it's dying. Everyone is just really like, they take a step back, but to actually have conviction about what's good and bad: love it.” PeopleFeelsMeanCareStepsOpinionDyingMy FavoriteConvictionDiscussionGood And BadFavorites ThingsBad Love Author:Fred Armisen
“I can't look in the mirror and see people dying on the street that should have the same opportunities that I've had. And say 'You know what? I can live with myself.' Because I can't if I just watch.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldLooksI CanOpportunityWatchesStreetsDyingShould HaveMirrorsBecause I CanPeople Dying Author:Colin Kaepernick
“People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.” PeopleGivingEndsAmericaJusticeLibertyDyingHappeningsVainBargains Author:Colin Kaepernick
“[My favorite decade] probably the '60s, because there were hardly any rules and heroin hadn't shown up, so people hadn't started dying. It was incredibly upbeat, and we almost did change the world. I guess that was the best one .” PeopleWorldDyingMy FavoriteDecadesChanging The WorldHeroinUpbeat Author:Lemmy Kilmister
“When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty years when they ask what we did when the people in Iraq were dying.'” PeopleYearsChildrenAsksDyingOur ChildrenIraqFiftyAuschwitz Author:Mairead Corrigan
“"I would be prosecuted and imprisoned if I did what you did." Again, different strokes for the Clintons, look what happened they get a pass, they get to collect all the paychecks and get all the glory, and get the cash while the rest of the people are suffering or dying in Benghazi.” PeopleIfsLooksDifferentWould BeSufferingHappenedDyingGloryClintonCashStrokesPaychecksBenghaziDifferent Strokes Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.” PeopleThinkingFeelsArtFormSeeingDyingMuseumsFrustratingExhibits Author:Parker Posey
“You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.” PeopleMadeSaidDemocracyDyingHungerIlliteratePeople Who Are Dying Author:Indira Gandhi
“We pick up people dying full of worms from the street. We have picked up more than 40,000 of them. If I lift up such a person, clean him, love him and serve him, is it conversion? He has been there like an animal in the street but I am giving him love and he dies peacefully. That peace comes from his heart. That's between him and God.” PeopleIfsGivingHeartPersonsHas BeensDiesAnimalStreetsDyingPicksCleanConversionLiftsWormsPeople Dying Author:Mother Teresa
“We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.” PeopleFeelsTryingHomeDiesHouseStreetsDyingAnd LoveVictimAidsWormsPeace And LoveDelhi Author:Mother Teresa
“You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.” PeopleHumansPersonsHappensCitiesDyingInformationLike YouDiseaseCapableConsequenceOvercomingMajorityClimateAddictionClimate ChangeHuman HistoryPredictingUnderwaterFood Supply Author:Moby
“Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.” PeopleYearsDyingHiv Author:Sean Strub
“It was a privilege to be president and it is a privilege to be a former president and I believe that I have got a chance to be a part of something that is influential - but not for my sake, but for the sake of people dying in Africa or people worried about a free society in their countries or people who wonder whether there will be a free market.” PeopleBelieveCountryI BelievePresidentChanceWonderDyingSakePrivilegeFormerWorriedFree MarketInfluentialFree SocietyPeople Dying Author:George W. Bush
“Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsBookFilmHouseKnow HowDyingMissingHeroOvercomingYeahExcitementWho We AreBalletOperaClassical MusicMiss Julie Author:Liv Ullmann
“Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindPovertyDyingFrontsNeededAreasNuclearOperationsUnemploymentPakistanManipulateCarrotsProliferationNuclear ProliferationMusharraf Author:Benazir Bhutto
“I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or time and memory and how they look when you get to be in your sixties, and I thought, "Well, yes but people are dying every day in Baghdad," I wouldn't feel guilty about not writing about Baghdad if I didn't have any good ideas about how to write about it.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWritingWellsLooksIdeasMemoriesMiddleDyingObsessionGuiltyCaliforniaGood IdeasSixtyGrandchildrenOaksBaghdadMy Grandchildren Author:Robert Hass
“I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsMomentsLastsYoungPoliticalOpportunityChurchPartyDyingHumilityMembersMarriedInstitutionsRefuseHarmEnormousRight ThingConfessionPolitical PartiesWrong ThingsRespondingWrongdoing Author:Anna Quindlen
“You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantWritingBelieveBookIdeasCareValuesChallengesShareDyingAddCompellingEnjoyable Author:Simon Sinek
“I have seen several deaths, too many deaths in my life, and they were all different. Each one was different. It didn't seem to be necessarily connected with the life of the person. Some people that were not particularly developed or outstanding or spiritual died very easily. Some other people were on a very high level and had a difficult time in dying.” PeoplePersonsDifferentSeemsSpiritualDifficultLevelsDyingDiedConnectedDifficult TimesOutstandingHigh Level Author:Laura Huxley
“Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on this new translation - with my part being to help render it into a verse form that would be good to chant. Since I have worked with many dying people over the years and often share the Heart Sutra with them, I found this new version that we created together to be so much more accessible to those who were facing death.” PeopleYearsHeartHelpingWould BeTogetherFormFoundShareTeachingDyingInsightBe GoodVersionsVersesTranslationsWondrousSwitzerlandFacing Death Author:Joan Halifax
“I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a battle as sublime. Because even though people were dying, it was such a huge sensory experience that it became sublime.” PeopleThinkingBeautifulDyingHugeBattleStonesDistinctionSublimeSensory Author:George Saunders
“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.” PeopleIfsPhilosophyWould BeStudyDyingAbsurdPursue Book:Plato Source: Plato
“The biggest fear that everybody has is dying. Not to get too meta on you, but I think every fear that people are trying to work out is really like I'm going to die and no one is going to care, and it doesn't matter because God might not exist. That's what people are trying to figure out. I wish we all had one fear so we could think about it together and figure out a solution, but we're all doing different things.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentMatterMightCareTogetherDiesWishDyingFiguresSolutionsWork OutDifferent ThingsBiggest Fear Author:Lena Dunham
“Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.” PeopleLongMadeTwoHappensPainDyingReadyTasteVictimForgivingTorture Author:Saadi Yacef
“I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So any time I get a chance to do a little comedy, that's also a nice change for me. Most of the time people think of me as a dramatic actress and singer. And there's a challenge there because comedy is hard. What do they say? "Dying is easy; comedy is hard."” PeopleThinkingEasyChallengesChanceComedyNiceDyingDramaticThink Of Me Author:Audra McDonald
“Kitchen is the place where we have our best and worst conversations. It's such a dying thing, people sitting around the table and enjoying dinner together in their home. My mission is to keep that alive.” PeopleHomeTogetherEnjoyWorstDyingKitchen Author:Stephen Curry
“Each of us spends money on things that we do not really need. You could take the money you're spending on those unnecessary things and give it to this organization the Against Malaria Foundation which would take the money you had given and use it to buy nets to protect children. And we know reliably that if we provide nets, they're used, and they reduce the number of children dying from malaria. Fortunately more and more people are understanding this idea, and the result is a growing movement effective altruism.” PeopleGivingChildrenUnderstandingDyingProtectUnnecessaryAltruism Author:Peter Singer
“I learned to read but not to comprehend, and that might well have stood me in good stead, because what's there to understand, really? Everything I later learned to understand was unspeakably ugly anyway. In time, I bought some rulebooks and squeezed my way onto the honor roll, but, decades later, I've been pointed toward people described as "actively dying" who only now and then seemed to be going about it friskily.There was mostly no hustle I could notice.” PeopleDyingHonorUglyMy WayNow And ThenHustle Author:Gary Lutz
“There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.” PeopleMenGivingArtWarEnoughDyingArt IsUglySicknessJustifyCrapUglinessPeople Dying Author:Don McLean
“Today, they make films where you have to sit for an hour and a half and watch somebody in the process of dying and, for me, that's rather depressing. Films, in the good old days of the golden age of Hollywood, used to want to inspire people and give them uplift. You're paying good money to see a film, and you don't want to leave depressed!” PeopleGivingAgeTodayFilmHoursDyingInspireUpliftingDepressingGood Money Author:Ray Harryhausen
“We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.” PeopleDyingCarJudgingSuicideCrashCar Crash Author:Chris Gethard
“There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm not saying it's an exceptionally dramatic peaks-and-valleys kind of life but there's a lot of it, honestly.” PeopleKindCrazyDyingDrugAddictionHonestlyDramaticDrug AddictionDrug AddictPeople Dying Author:Roddy Bottum
“Jazz stopped being creative in the early '80s. After your acoustic era, where you had the likes of the Miles Davis Quintet, when it gets to the '70s it started being jazz fusion where you had more electronic stuff happening, then in the '80s they started trying to bring back the acoustic stuff, like Branford Marsalis and the Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton sextet. It started dying down from there. Miles was still around in the '80s and he was still being creative; he was playing Michael Jackson songs and changing sounds, but a lot of people were still trying to regurgitate the old stuff.” PeopleTryingSongCreativeDyingJazzBe Creative Author:Robert Glasper
“I do think comics are a dying art form because newspapers are a dying medium. But it's not to say that in the next generation, where there's people getting their news electronically, comics won't survive. Right now, they're still largely attached to the newspaper world. And the more they can break away from that, the more they have a chance to live on.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtChanceBreakDyingNext Generation Author:Aaron McGruder
“My McQueen particularly was hard to make, because my father was dying. I see it, and I see my confusion, my pain, my everything. I thought that it was really interesting to be able to put the people from behind the camera in front of the camera as they make it.” PeoplePainFatherInterestingDyingConfusionReally InterestingMcqueen Author:Lourdes Portillo
“I feel that we have, as Mexicans, two things: one, a natural distrust of institutions. I hate organised religion, I hate organised politics, I hate the idea of the military and the police. Because we grew up distrusting all these sacred institutions, the only thing you have left is a vague, national sense of impending doom. Why do we drink and how are we so merry? Because we know that pretty soon, our time's up. There is a sense of fatality that makes us pretty chirpy people. You try to live. The only reason that dying is important is that it gives life sense.” PeopleGivingTryingImportantReasonHateNaturalDyingMilitaryDrinkI HatePoliceDistrustDoom Author:Guillermo del Toro
“In South Africa one in four women have AIDS. When you are there it is shocking. So many people are dying from the disease and the same number are getting the disease each year. My main goal was to learn and call attention to some of the things that were happening.” PeopleGoalAttentionDyingAidsSouth Africa Author:Kristin Davis
“I call it financial impotence, this notion of not having enough money, because it has the same characteristics as sexual impotence. And men will never talk about sexual impotence, no matter how close you are to someone, but financial impotence is an even greater barrier. And, I broke that omerta. I had people walk up to me in the grocery store - Several people, coming up to me and saying, "Gosh. Let me tell you my story." People are so pent up with their sense of financial impotence, that they're dying to get it out!” PeopleMenEnoughDyingLet MeFinancialBrokeBarriers Author:Neal Gabler
“Many young people are not having safe sex because they think medicines will make everything okay. The thing about these medicines is that you often have to take them your whole life. They can be very aggressive chemicals for your body. Just because you don't hear of as many people around you dying from HIV/AIDS - just like how it was in the '80s and '90s - you can still die. I'd say to someone who's very young to protect themselves and protect their lives. There's nothing safer than not catching this virus. It's having something that never goes out of your system.” PeopleThinkingDyingProtectOkayAidsWhole LifeAggressive Author:Carla Bruni
“I had written a lot about my dog dying before. I wrote a newspaper column about it and it turned out to be the most popular column I'd ever written. That and the lame Joni Mitchell column I did. But the dog column, my god! People love dogs. Anybody who writes regularly should know, when in doubt: dogs! If you're a columnist, when in doubt, write a column about the culture of narcissism - like a scolding column about the culture of narcissism - or write something about dogs. That's the homerun in my take.” PeopleWritingCultureDoubtDyingDogNarcissismMy Dog Author:Meghan Daum
“I think with success you do get a little more guarded and you start to change your friends. You become more isolated. And you start hanging around with people who have money! I think that's the biggest thing. Once you do get a bit of change in your pocket, you start hanging around with other people who have some change. It was kind of strange to all of a sudden go from one extreme-Manhattan-to where I went, upstate New York. But I did it because I was dying in the city. I couldn't take it. I couldn't take one more dinner party. I couldn't take one more party, period.” PeopleThinkingKindPartyDyingStrangeDinner Party Author:Richard Prince
“People race to achieve everything by a certain age in their life, be it 40, 50 or 60 - but with increasing life spans 50 or 60 might be just the beginning of a new career, or just the point when you begin to get into your stride. There used to be a syndrome of me retiring at 65 and then dying not long after because their life was stripped of meaning, without their work. But these days you may live another 20 or 30 years beyond 65 so you have to figure out where you can make another contribution.” PeopleLongAgeAchieveDyingRetiringNew Car Author:Tom Butler-Bowdon
“There was a time when I wanted to get out of the Western world. I went down to Grenada and looked at a place, and I realised that if I lived in a Grenadian manner I'd be nothing but a blah. I'm going to need constant bodyguarding, guns and money to join the community there. Otherwise you just got a bunch of fat, old white people dying together, overeating, drinking. Not very attractive.” PeopleWorldTogetherCommunityDyingGunDrinkingWesternAttractivePeople Dying Author:Iggy Pop
“I have a group of very loyal people. We are in the minority very much, basically 10 to 15% of the population that supports what we do. It's temporary. I think that the high numbers for Putin, they will pass as soon as economic tensions mount. And then the whole situation will be flipped. It's important not to alienate people, not to receive negative reaction on yourself, but we have to wait a little bit. Bolsheviks in 1914 were a dying sect, the only ones against the war, but just two and a half years later, they came to power.” PeopleThinkingImportantWarWaitingSituationSupportEconomicDyingNegativeTensionTemporaryLoyal Author:Ilya Ponomarev