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Dying Quotes - Page 55

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

To work is to live without dying.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

Everybody loses the thing that made them.

"Fictional character: Hushpuppy". "Beasts of the Southern Wild", www.imdb.com. 2012.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We all die, just a question of when.

"Fictional character: John Russell". "Hombre", www.imdb.com. March 21, 1967.

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)