Killing And Dying Quotes

#1. If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

Ron Dellums

#2. Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

Christa Wolf

#3. Surely, if we could create the world anew, the practice of organizing our lives around untestable propositions found in ancient literature - to say nothing of killing and dying for them - would be impossible to justify. What stops us from finding it impossible now?

Sam Harris

#4. A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.

Adrian Tomine

#5. Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

Jackson Katz

#6. Today everything is so complex as to be incomprehensible. What sense does it make for men to walk on the moon while other men are waiting on welfare lines, or in Vietnam killing and dying for a corrupt dictatorship in the name of freedom?

Saul D. Alinsky

#7. A choice between killing and dying is no choice at all. You have to be realistic about these things. b

Joe Abercrombie

#8. I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.

Adrian Tomine

#9. Alone among the animals, humans seek meaning in their lives by killing and dying for the sake of nonsensical dreams.

John N. Gray

#10. In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'

Paul G. Quinnett

#11. And this book was an attempt to be with these feelings, also to find a place that will allow both to remember all the time without dying of it and to forget without killing.

David Grossman

#12. I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

Raymond Chandler

#13. Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?

Wesley J. Smith

#14. It's difficult the first time you have to get close to kill another. You see their eyes, see the light in it go out. Even a troll's eyes have that light. I'd be worried if you didn't feel something after that. I don't like hunting with a man who's a killer without that feeling.

Raymond E. Feist

#15. Donna say no. If you are, do it now and leave me alone. I can't take this, Maggie. You're killing me by small degrees.

Melissa Schroeder

#16. The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.

Utah Phillips

#17. There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does this differ from stabbing a man and killing him, and then saying, 'it was not I, it was the weapon?

Mencius

#18. And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

Taylor Swift

#19. It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read.

Newt Gingrich

#20. That is not true, but we lack the moral authority to endorse them (acts of euthanasia). What we do instead is what you have just seen. We commend the dying to Saint Hubert and tie them to a pillar in order to prolong and intensify their suffering.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#21. Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

Paul L. Maier

#22. 'If life is pain, one could say that killing is an act of compassion. I look forward to my own death, you know. But dying is like losing you virginity. You can only do it once. I'm saving it for the right moment.'

Amanda Steiger

#23. All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

Ray Winstone

#24. In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.

Osamu Dazai

#25. A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don't even know it.

Tim Loy

#26. There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as "succesful" and "unsuccesful" to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who "fail" at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompeent incapable even of getting their dying quite right.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#27. Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.

Cat Cora

#28. Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Anna Quindlen

#29. There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.

Michael Scott

#30. There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Tom Robbins