#dying

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#death-and-dying #war #death

Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#also #anecdotal #because #breakthroughs #child

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE). ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#cooling #end #experimental #group #had

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#books #facets #knowledge #learning #men

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. ↗

— Jessica Mitford

#american public #dying #expensive #gracious #huge

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#again #become #blue #blue sky #cloudy

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#hate #i #learning #like #love

Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around. ↗

— George A. Romero

#affected #anything #around #been #corner