I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.