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“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
Ayra Starr (born 2002) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.”
Ben Okri (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.”
Xavier Dolan (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need more diplomacy, not less. We have two powers. The US and Russia have an awful lot in common. Both are run by monopoly capital, run by oligarchs on both sides. We have two imperialist powers fighting each other in Ukraine, and only working-class people are dying.”
Mick Wallace (born 1955) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The relations of the Russian government and diplomatic network with parties of extremist, populist, anti-European and certain other European political parties in the context of the war (debate)" (6 July 2022)
“The Red Cross follows after the army, binds up the wounds made by the sabre and the bullet, closes the eyes of the dying, and sends the parting message to the widow and mother; but the Peace Movement, with a broader charity, seeks to abolish guns and bayonets and to settle all difficulties by arbitration, or by judicial methods.”
Belva Ann Lockwood (1830–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I stand here this morning, every minute children are dying in Africa and Asia from malnutrition.”
Graça Machel (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never really thought about legacy when I was in a fight. A legacy is what old men think about when they're dying. But now I realize how important that legacy is.”
David Bellavia (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Please include me on the list of foreign agents of my dear country, as I agree with my husband, an honest, decent and genuine man, a real patriot of Russia who cannot be bought, who wishes prosperity, peaceful life, freedom of speech to his Homeland and who wants our boys to stop dying for illusory goals that make our country a pariah and that make the lives of our citizens harder.”
Alla Pugacheva (born 1949) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, quoted in "Famous Russian singer Alla Pugacheva asks to include her on ‘foreign agent’ list alongside her husband, TV presenter Maxim Galkin", Novya Gazeta, 18 September…
“The Harvard study comes out and I’m like, ‘OK, now I understand.' Black people are dying because of where we live.”
Beverly Wright wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are all dying, just at different speeds.”
Hilary Mantel (1952–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Please, someone stop this nightmare. Choosing to remain silent means somehow lends support to the genocide unfolding right now. Shout out your indignation, in every capital of the 'civilised' world, in every city, in every square, covering our own screams of pain and terror. A slice of humanity is dying while pitifully listening out for a response.”
Vittorio Arrigoni (1975–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need to move beyond dialogues because with every dialogue there is a child dying, with every dialogue there is a family migrating looking for sources of water and looking for food, for every dialogue people continue to suffer.”
Vanessa Nakate (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My only ambition in politics is to halve the levels of violence experienced by women and girls in a decade. Despite two women dying every week there is still no strategy or target around femicide. We live in a patriarchy still. It is 2024 but all our institutions are based on a 1950s, or 1850s or even 1750s ideal that doesn’t work for women”
Jess Phillips (born 1981) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Eleanor Mills, as cited in "Jess Phillips: 'Lindsay Hoyle is obsessed with security after Jo Cox – that's why he acted that way'", The Telegraph (24 February 2024).
“I don’t see ANY beneficiary of this crazy war! Innocent people and soldiers are dying.”
Oleg Tinkov (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even so, would a state-run plan to bump off the old ever be acceptable? Since assisted dying was legalised in the Netherlands in 2002, the parameters have extended far beyond allowing a merciful release from terminal suffering — which most of us support — to include even young people with depression.”
Janice Turner (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Canada assisted dying is available to almost anyone able to give informed consent if they first undergo counselling. Critics say euthanasia has been offered to the poor, disabled or just unhappy, including maimed military veterans.”
Janice Turner (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Africa is not the dark continent, Africa is a great continent, Africa is not a dying continent, Africa is a beautiful continent.”
Yvonne Chaka Chaka (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When will the work be finished? The wait is nearly unbearable. “Soon and very soon!” we sing each Sunday. “No more crying, no more dying, no more hunger, no more fighting!” We sing at the top of our lungs. We clap. Outside a siren’s high-pitched wail goes racing toward the next crisis. Soon can’t come soon enough.”
Heidi Neumark (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My interest will involve encouraging Nigerian and foreign charity organisations to help raise funds for the needy, most especially, Nigerian showbiz stars who are dying of curable and manageable ailments due to lack of funds”
Mabel Oboh (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I should be married and have 19 kids, And now I’m thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They’re going to go past their expiration date. But it’s what I chose, so I’m fine with that decision.”
Octavia Spencer (born 1970) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Octavia speak on not having kids in 2020.
“You have to know the insane odds, but you have to have the energy to buck them. You don't know if you're going to get a job anyway, so why give yourself the extra added handicap of dying if you don't play St. Joan?”
Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maureen speak on choosing a particular role as an actress in 1981.
“These are Wagner lads who died today. The blood is still fresh. They came here as volunteers and are dying so you can sit like fat cats in your luxury offices.”
Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961–2023) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wagner chief rages at Russia’s generals and threatens Bakhmut pullout", The Guardian (5 May 2023)
“If military spending were used for other purposes, a fund could be set up to help millions of people who are dying for peace.”
Pietro Parolin (born 1955) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Summit disarmo: card. Parolin, serve «fiducia reciproca» per «evitare conflitti e costruire ponti», toscanaoggi.it (November 10, 2017)
“I smoke a lot, yes. The proverbial Turk could take a punt on it. Et alors? I am not afraid of dying. If I have to, I have to.”
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (1945–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're at great risk of dying of niceness [...] I hate niceness.”
David Starkey (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is the need to explore the field more and sponsor research on epidemiological study. We need to know why more people are dying of renal failure, liver cancer and kidney problems when they do not indulge in attitude or have conditions that expose them to the diseases.”
Olanike Kudirat Adeyemo (born 1970) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Buttressing the need to explore the veterinary field and more research sponsorship in her interview with The Punch, June 10, 2017.
“A nation that does not honor its heroes is not worth dying for.”
John Atta Mills (1944–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Theft doesn’t even stop during a pandemic,”...“We have people dying while some are stealing.”
Wanjeri Nderu (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With NHS staff being forced to witness our patients dying in corridors, in cupboards, on floors and in stranded ambulances, we can only thank our lucky stars that the country's second most powerful politician is the man who last year published Zero: Eliminating Unnecessary Deaths in a Post-Pandemic NHS.”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ministers could help the patients dying in NHS hospital corridors right now – they just choose not to", The Guardian (6 January 2023).
“The Commune is also a Black revolutionary counterculture. It is the embryo of the new Black revolutionary society in the body of the old sick, dying one. It is the new lifestyle in microcosm, which contains the new Black social values and the new communal organizations, and institutions, which will become the sociopolitical infrastructure of the free society.”
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Encounters with pain and sorrow made me want to write. When I was 6, I was already writing sad poems about cats and dogs that had been killed and soldiers that were dying in war. It’s in my DNA. (2014)”
Zeruya Shalev (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are dying of depression, cancer and HIV and yet South Africans have time for jokes. Half of SA is suffering with some chronic disease which is such a challenge for families, so people need to grow up”
Sophie Lichaba (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is evidence that some corals are now dying on the most severely affected reefs.”
Tracy Ainsworth wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But sometimes I say to myself, ‘There, Afri-cans are fighting, dying and I am doing not h-ing, My life is sheltered in the heart of this cityof stone. I just don’t know, I just don’t know.”
Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our administrators are killing the sport. We have to understand that you cannot reap from where you did not sow. I’m sorry to say this, we believe too much in fire-brigade approach. Sports is dying in Nigeria because our administrators are not doing what they are supposed to do. It was on during our time but it was better. It is that bad now.”
Ene Franca Idoko (born 1985) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: AdminTO, Athletics is dead in Nigeria —Franca Idoko, Nigerian Tribune, 23 August 2016.
“Nuvolari is brown in colour, | Nuvolari has the sharp mask, | Nuvolari always keeps his mouth shut, | he doesn't care about dying, | he runs if it rains, he runs in the sun, | three plus three is always seven for him, | with the red Alfa he does what he wants, | inside the fire of a hundred arrows! (from Nuvolari, side A, n. 3)”
Lucio Dalla (1943–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The night has its own scent and you can fall into it, | that no one sees you | but for someone like me, poor guy, who wanted to take you by the hand | and fall into a bed | how sad, how nostalgic | Don't look yourself in the eye and tell yourself another lie. | At least I hadn't met you | I'm dying here and you're eating ice cream. (from Cara, side B, n. 2)”
Lucio Dalla (1943–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have a dream that the Niger Delta will be cured even though it is dying of oil pollution.”
Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Karen Wright, Sokari Douglas Camp, sculptor: 'I was not good at painting so I tried sculpture, as I liked putting my hand in my work', Independent, 16 April 2015.
“Life happens! But when it happens –DO NOT KEEP QUIET. If you keep quiet, you start dying on the inside and you are giving the person who assaulted you victory. YOU MUST WIN.”
Dolapo Adeleke (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Q material—whether or not it suffices as evidence of Jesus's historicity—refers to a [human] personage who is not to be identified with the [mythical] dying and rising Christ of the early epistles.”
G. A. Wells (1926–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My Rangers deserve this award. They did the training. They did the fighting. They did the dying. Two of them carried me off the battlefield. Those men are the ones who should get the credit. They're the ones who earned this Medal of Honor. RLTW. Rangers Lead the Way.”
Ralph Puckett (1926–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We had a housekeeper in Canada, a wonderful woman, whose father raped all of his daughters. She went to see him when he was dying and said, "I'm here to forgive you." He said, "Forgiveness for what? It was my right.”
Donald Sutherland (1935–2024) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview, as cited in "Donald Sutherland: 'I want Hunger Games to stir up a revolution'", The Guardian (19 November 2013)
“It was difficult for the Africans most of whom had taken European education and embraced Christian religion, to revert to the rapidly dying, outdated traditions and customs of their forefathers”
Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would take a while for me to realise that each of my children had given me as much as they took. My memories of them, bittersweet and constant, were as powerful as a physical presence. And because of that, as a bus bore me into the heart of a city I did not know, while my last child was dying in Lagos and the country was unraveling, I was not afraid because I was not alone.”
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am saw souls dying one by one, their spirits crushed beneath the weight of oppression.”
Yasmina Khadra (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Uganda was in a state of siege, writhing like a dying moth on the floor. The bugles of defeat were poised, waiting to blow the walls down. The inside of the country was like a grenade whose pin had already been drawn.”
Moses Isegawa (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Africa is big: fifty-four countries, 900 million people who are too busy starving and dying and warring and emigrating to read your book. The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn’t care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular.”
Binyavanga Wainaina (1971–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shall I tell you when he was on the Rappahannock, and they telegraphed him his child was dying — his darling little Flora — that he replied that ‘I shall have to leave my child in the hands of God; my duty to my country requires me here.’”
J. E. B. Stuart (1833–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Recounted by Major-General Fitzhugh Lee, October 28, 1875. Jubal Early, Southern Historical Papers, vol. 1 (January–June 1876), p. 102
“(You write about how reconciliation is a misnomer, that Indigenous people are still dying — what should we be talking about instead?) LM: The first part — truth. No truth, no reconciliation.”
Lee Maracle (1950–2021) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: interview (2017)
“I have still got women sending me the most tragic, terrible text messages and phoning me at all hours, saying "please help me, I am hiding in my basement, I didn't get on your planes in 2021 because my mother was dying, I couldn't leave at the time, but now they are after me.”
Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source