I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
Dying is easy; comedy is hard.
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.
The only reason I ever shared my health journey with the world was because I felt it to be my duty to sufferers that are bed-ridden and dying because there has yet to be found a proper diagnostic test for Lyme Disease in this country.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
I am dying of hunger.
I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.