“The art of dying is part of the art of living.”
Tarik Gunersel (1953) Turkish actor
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
“The art of dying is part of the art of living.”
Tarik Gunersel (1953) Turkish actor
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
William Osler (1849–1919) Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospi…
On the Educational Value of the Medical Society (1903), p. 333
Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist
Source: Art As a Social System (2000), p. 102.
“I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.”
David Lodge (1935) writer
Part IV, ch. 1, p. 245.
Small World (1984)
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
"The Storyteller" (1936)
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 25; Variant: Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose — to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!
As quoted in Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000)
Context: Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat — to learn to die — is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
Keith Haring (1958–1990) American artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s b…
Haring – Art in Transit http://www.haring.com/!/selected_writing/haring-art-in-transit#.V1cw0tIrKyw The Keith Haring Foundation
Michael Flynn book Eifelheim
Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter 5 (p. 234)
