#dying

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#hard-work

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ↗

— Roy Blount, Jr.

#clinic #harvard #learning #like #literature

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#death #devastating #disgraceful #dying #helpless

The act of dying is one of the acts of life. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#acts #dying #life

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.' ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#anyway #come #death #dying #easier

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. ↗

— John Berger

#dying #gradually #grows #like #past

It is very beautiful over there. (last words) ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#beauty

It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying. ↗

— Herve Villechaize

#hurts #i

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. ↗

— Carla Bley

#best #everything #go #jazz #just

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#across #ad #afraid #am #arm