Actively Dying Quotes

#1. I was not living but actively dying.

Augusten Burroughs

#2. She was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

Cassandra Clare

#3. 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

#4. I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

Richard Simmons

#5. There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.

Shannon Dittemore

#6. Not actively surviving is passively dying.

Ori Hofmekler

#7. In unison, we stepped away from the group, sharing a secret little smile. Fuck, this girl makes me feel unhinged.

Christina Lauren

#8. 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

#9. Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Marcel Achard

#10. After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

Emmanuelle Beart

#11. 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

#12. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Bruce Lee