#dying

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#because #dead #dying #faint #grows

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#alone #another #come #die #dying

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#american #because #communists #front #home

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. ↗

— Terry Riley

#been #before #had #him #i

My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#already #also #been #drummer #drums

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#comes #coverage #dying #event #focus

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#death #dying #fear #itself #many

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #life #my life #soviet #spent

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ↗

— Robert Burns

#dying #gets #guy #instead #opera

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater. ↗