Actively Dying Quotes & Sayings

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering. — Frederick Lenz

I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. — Ashly Lorenzana

Is history to be considered the property of the participants only? — Salman Rushdie

As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces- growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying- and at any given moment of our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between these two forces. — Audre Lorde

Not actively surviving is passively dying. — Ori Hofmekler

We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The geeks shall inherit the earth. — Karl Lehenbauer

All the same I fear what happens when we expand the terrain of medical practice to include actively assisting people with speeding their death. I am less worried about the abuse of these powers than I am about dependence on them. — Atul Gawande

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock. — Naomie Harris

Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

He doesn't know he doesn't always. — Stephen King

I was not living but actively dying. — Augusten Burroughs

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body. — Mariel Hemingway

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me. — Alison Krauss

It is abundantly clear that a total review of all intelligence programs is necessary so that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are fully informed as to what is actually being carried out by the intelligence community. — Dianne Feinstein

The Springboard. Denning — Chip Heath

Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion. — Sogyal Rinpoche

I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I'm shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear.
I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that's all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I'm going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I'm writing and will have a record of the anxiety. — Augusten Burroughs