#dying

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#closest #dying #eight #friends #getting

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#continued #created #field #i #improvisation

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#because #die #dying #exactly #expect

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#am #bucket #day #dying #feel

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#death #dying #enemy #find #i

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. ↗

— Keith Henson

#best #captured #dying #escape #fighting

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#both #carry #day #die #dying

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#death-and-dying #die #death

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #faith #i #last #pursue