“My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying.” SaidDyingDaughterQuittingSmokingMy DaughterSpidersQuit Smoking Author:Robert Clark
“A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.” ThinkingMenSaidCountryDiesToo MuchDyingFranceTangibleSaying Too Much Book:Selected Essays: 1934-1943 Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943
“I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.” IfsWaySaidIdeasSometimesWould BeRunningThreeNextWishMy OwnAbilityNumbersTalkingFiveWeekDyingFineMonthsLimitsRichesBlockDryEmbarrassmentNumber Three Author:Woody Allen
“The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.” FirstsHas BeensSaidDeathDiesThreeDyingHealthDoctorsThirdsIslandsSpats Author:Frederic Chopin
“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.” ArtSaidWholeNamesWaterBornLinesChancePoorBoysSeaDyingFieldsRiversLaysLipsCaughtFishesBoatStreamsLakesFishingSwimShoreEstatesHookInheritancePreyMy BoysPasturesOxen Author:Ovid
“Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."” SaidMovingUniverseBornGenerationsDyingPoetBuddhismEternityMultitudesMoleculesGreat AmericanWalt Author:Frederick Lenz