Pastoral Resources

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.