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• “Die Freundschaft zwischen Geschlechtsgleichen bekommt einen erotischen Ton, der ins Bewusstsein tritt, und der sich auch mitunter bis zur Begierde steigert. Hier begann für die altere Medizin die Pathologie, wie für die ältere Juristik die Kriminalität, ohne dass in dem natürlichen Verhalten irgend ein Grund für einen von beiden gegeben wäre.”

  Hans Blüher (1888–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I don't care when I die, when you die, you die. What I don't want is to die in my bed. To be killed in an accident or to be shot is my preferred way to die.”

  Ashraf Pahlavi (1919–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Die Macht einer Weltanschauung bewährt sich ja nicht durch die Antworten, die sie zu geben weiß, sondern durch die Fragen, die sie abzudrosseln versteht.”

  Günther Anders (1902–1992) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen: über die Seele im Zeitalter der zweiten industriellen Revolution (1956), Volume 1, p. 349. as quoted in english by Paul Virilio, Bertrand Richard in The Administration of Fear (2012), p.…

• “Die Warheit zu sagen, so höret oder siehet man selten einen Streit swischen ihnen; es trauen die fremdesten Leute einander mehr, als in Europa die Bekannten. Man ist auch viel aufrichtiger und liebreicher gegeneinander als in Teutschland, darum leben unsere Americaner viel ruhiger und friedsamer als die Europäer zusammen, und dieses alles macht die Freyheit, worinnen alle einander gleich sind.”

  Gottlieb Mittelberger (1715–1779) first seen 1750 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reise nach Pennsylvanien im Jahr 1750 und Rükreise nach Teutschland im Jahr 1754 (Stuttgart, 1756) p. 103. Translated by Carl Theodor Eben, Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750, and Return to Germany in the Year 175…

• “Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.”

  Emil Cioran (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “People are afraid to die, because they do not know what is death. The gnani has died before his death, he saw that there was nothing to be afraid of. The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. (…) The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description. (…).”

  Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Q: What can I do to overcome my fear of death? A: Attachment to the body causes fear of death. It is the strongest attachment. Even a newborn infant has this attachment. To overcome the fear of death it is necessary to accept that we all have to die.”

  Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “...Witnesses in this case do have a habit of dying at the most inconvenient times. I understand a London insurance firm has prepared an actuarial chart on the likelihood of 20 of the people involved in this case dying within three years of the assassination -- and found the odds 30 trillion to one. But I'm sure NBC will shortly discover that one of my investigators bribed the computer.”

  Jim Garrison (1921–1992) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: [Playboy interview, October 1967.]

• “But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)”

  John Green (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.”

  Sidney Poitier (1927–2022) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier", O Magazine (October 2000)

• “Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.”

  Herrick Johnson (1832–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I probably took more than anybody could survive. … I was bangin' seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear, GO!. … I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. … Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.”

  Charlie Sheen (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.”

  Joan of Arc (1412–1431) said by 1431 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quote is often seen as attributed to Joan of Arc. However, the quote is actually a line from a script for the 1946 Broadway play entitled Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson which later become a movie in 1948 entitled …

• “For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens.”

  Henry Miller (1891–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room.”

  T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Let us yield a bit. Let us grant socialism a few more years. Socialism is so obsolete, it is dying by itself.... Did I say socialism? I assure you on my honor this was not a mental slip. This was a slip of the tongue. Do not forget that. Capitalism—and I say it with such gusto—capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.”

  Fidel Castro (1926–2016) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Comments on Latin American Debt (15 September 1985)

• “Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgement. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”

  Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours”

  Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: May 2023 at a CNN Town Hall, quoted in 2 July 2024 article by Edith M. Lederer for AP News

• “I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.”

  Alan Moore (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Air! Air!" croaked Kralefsky, "Give me air!" "Interesting," said Colonel Ribbindane. "Saw a pygmy like that once in the Congo... been trapped in an elephant’s stomach. The elephant is the largest African quadruped.." "Do get him out," said Mother agitatedly. "Get some brandy." "Fan him! Blow on him!" shrilled Margo, and burst into tears. "He’s dying, he’s dying, and he never finished his trick.”

  Gerald Durrell (1925–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I know what every colored woman in this country is doing. . . . Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.”

  Toni Morrison (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.”

  Octavia Butler (1947–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.”

  Simone Weil (1909–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I can sing about songs with gunshots in the background because I heard them. It's almost like my music has been a way to smoke out the hatred that's been bubbling underneath what's going on in Sri Lanka. If there's 300,000 people who are trapped and they're dying, it should be talked about, it should be brought to the table, and I don't see anything wrong in sticking up for 300,000 dying people.”

  M.I.A. (born 1975) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Video Interview to TIME (2009)

• “I'm not scared of dying And I, don't really care If it's peace you find in dying Well then, let the time be near.”

  Laura Nyro (1947–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In heaven so wonderful Why are we oh so afraid of dying young We are dying young”

  Kris Roe (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I have lived ten thousand years; I am used to it. Lovers dying, civilisations dying…one develops a certain god-like indifference to it all, intellectually.”

  Iain Banks (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Human beings — they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?”

  Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sword" ("Ken"), quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 67.

• “Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.”

  Nicole Krauss (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you’ve all been exposed. Why shouldn’t I give up hope?” “God has not abandoned us utterly,” he said. “Agnes is safe in his arms.” Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.”

  Connie Willis (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The essential art of dying consists of being easy-going and relaxed while at the same time staying mentally undistracted and one-pointed. Therefore, the one who is dying should imagine the most beautiful thing above his head and wish to go there as often as possible.”

  Lama Ole Nydahl (1941–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.”

  Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Good men are dying at this very moment to protect you, your factories, your possessions, and all civilization.” “Good men are dying every moment,” Gretchen replied coldly, “somewhere. Since they did not ask my leave to do so, I feel no particular obligation toward them.”

  Michael Swanwick (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Succour for the poor and hungry will take pride of place, and so will end for ever a blasphemy in men’s midst: millions will know for the first time the quiet happiness of satisfied need – no more will the dying forms of the starving disgrace the screens of the affluent; no longer will men watch their brothers dying before their eyes. So will end a dark chapter in the history of the race.”

  Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain.” — On staying in Iraq. Speech.”

  Mike Gravel (1930–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We came to tell you sir, that our clinic is run-down and abandoned.We came to tell you that we don’t have a single borehole onMorgan street... we are here to protest against this neglect--- weare dying from diseases. We are dying from a lack of hope. Andthat is why we are here today to protest. And this is the way wefeel we ought to express our displeasure”

  Helon Habila (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “when people start dying, they don't just start dying all of a sudden. It means this problem has been brewing for a few months.”

  Rachael Magoola (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Even though there has been so much that’s been achieved, a lot more needs to be done. Women are still dying, and it’s all unnecessary. Women have a right to healthcare. We have the knowledge, we have the instruments, we have everything to stop women from dying.”

  Eunice Brookman-Amissah (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I’ve been so busy DYING. I’ve been dying to a version of myself that no longer served me or the purpose I was created for. It’s been one truly trying but rewarding journey”

  Stellah Nantumbwe (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Church teaches that Saint Joseph, a model for both consecrated persons and fathers of families, has an unparalleled power of intercession with the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Furthermore, he who died in the sweet company of the Blessed Virgin and Jesus is the patron of the dying, the hope of the sick, and is able to protect the dying from the attacks of Satan.”

  Cristina Siccardi (born 1966) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Cristina Siccardi, San Giuseppe Patrono della Chiesa, Corrispondenza Romana, 14 March 2013.

• “My heart bleeds for all the people who cannot afford not to go out and work. They literally have to choose between dying of starvation or dying of covid.”

  Lisa Soberano (born 1998) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: https://www.pep.ph/news/local/171818/liza-soberano-quotes-a4399-20230228-lfrm]. "The times Liza Soberano's quotes made headlines". PEP.ph. 28 February 2023.

• “What a funny irony—to be swathed in recherché jewelry and clothes that probably cost more than most middle-class homes, dying for a sandwich. By the time I left, weary and weirded out, I was dying for one, too.”

  Alex Jovanovich (born 1975) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Smells Like Fete: The Anticlimactic Glamour of the 2026 Met Gala", Artforum, May 27, 2026.

• “I am dying, Egypt, dying.”

  William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine & dying We live, we die and death not ends it”

  Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced lifeforms, and they'll call you crazy.”

  Richard Bach (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.”

  Haruki Murakami (born 1949) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Thailand", from After the Quake (1999)

• “[On the Swiss Dignitas assisted dying clinic] It's not a walk-in death. You don't just go in and say, "Here I am, do your worst". You have to go through a whole series of papers and re-examinations just to die. You have to fill in forms and things and go have to fly there, go back twice.”

  Michael Winner (1935–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “While [hundreds of] thousands of Americans die alone, Donald touts stock market gains. As my father lay dying alone, Donald went to the movies. If he can in any way profit from your death, he'll facilitate it... then he'll ignore the fact that you died.”

  Mary L. Trump (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This is not a lament, it's the cry of a bird of prey. An iridescent and restless bird. The kiss upon the dead face. I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”

  Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead—dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist—and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.”

  Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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