#dying

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. ↗

— St. Jerome

#battlefield #being #dead #dying #engaged

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest. ↗

— Florynce R. Kennedy

#bed #chance #course #death #dying

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open. ↗

— Bernard Kerik

#eyes #going #like #open #prison

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents. ↗

— Imran Khan

#does #going #homework #opponents #studying

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#birth #could #cry #dying #ends

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying. ↗

— William Penn

#fears #forever #live #lives #never

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#chance #children #development #forth #knowledge

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#i #i love #i see #itself #like

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever. ↗

— Tony Randall

#plays #real #real thing #seeing #should

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#career #career choice #choice #circumstances #dying