#dying

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146) ↗

— Julia Cameron

#dying #life #living #death

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. ↗

— Jon Porter

#drastically #dying #embrace #errors #every

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. ↗

— Philip Roth

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I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash! ↗

— Lee Ryan

#asleep #crash #dying #every #every time

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town. ↗

— John Green

#dying #life-and-living #show #death

Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗

— Ally Condie

#death-and-dying #literature #literature-writing #art

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

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The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying. ↗

— Anthony T. Kronman

#dying #life #purpose #death

...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet. [we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#death #dying #death

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it. ↗

— Vijay Singh

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