#dying

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat. ↗

— Jet Li

#buddhism #few #i #i do #in the past

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#bit #classics #consequences #five #him

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America. ↗

— Ron Dellums

#dying #entire #entire generation #generation #killing

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#charting #existence #exploration #mapping #possibilities

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#after #becoming #best #completely #death

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#britain #cause #causes #death #dying

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for. ↗

— Henry Home

#difficulty #dying #finding #friend #great

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#loneliness #much #together