Pastoral Resources

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.