Famous quotes containing the word dying:
“Along with the lazy man ... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)