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“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”

“It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“A Warder once told me Trollocs call the Aiel Waste 'the Dying Ground.' I mean to make them give that name to the Two Rivers.”

Giving Mean Two Names Dying Waste Rivers

Book:The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'

“It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.”

“People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.”

People Stills Political Sadness Dying Waste Response Rate Hiv Infection

Author:Elton John

“I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.”

Years Mind Death Behinds Dying Balance Waste Breaths This Life Balanced

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.”

Moments Death Literature Fire Dying Birth Waste

Author:Edward Young

“Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly. "No! Of course not!" "No, not really? You really didnt attack him?" "Emmett!" I protested. "Aw, what a waste. And here you're probably the one person who could take him- since he can't get into your head to cheat- and you had a perfect excuse too. I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage.”

Persons Courses Perfect Dying Couple Waste Advantage Excuse Cheat

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.”

“Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.”

Knows Feels Ends Fear Dying Waste Not Afraid Terrified Fear Of Death

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time Come what may, come what may, I will love you until my dying day Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste, it all revolves around you. And there’s no mountain too high no river too wide Sing out this song and I’ll be there by your side Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide But I love you until the end of time”

“Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.”

People Needs Feels Sometimes Dying Waste Anger Angry Frustrated

Author:Mother Teresa

“Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.”

Death Dies Universe Dying Waste Transformed

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?”

Death Dying Waste Being Afraid

Author:Saul Williams

“Dying is such a waste of good health.”

Death Dying Waste Good Health

Author:James Coco