“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Hunter S. Thompson268
American journalist and author 1937–2005Related quotes
“You too are going to die, and that’s because you too were fortunate enough to have lived.”
Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 9, “...And Then You Die” (p. 208)
“Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Quatrains
Quatrains, Nature
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Invincible
“Redeemers always reach the world too late.
God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”
Peter Porter (1929–2010) British poet
"A Tale of Two Pieties", in The Chair of Babel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 51.
“There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81. Compare: "He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live", Michel de Montaigne, Essay, book i. chap. ix.; "I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die", Sandys, Anglorum Speculum, p. 903; "Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die", Beilby Porteus, Death, line 316; "He taught them how to live and how to die", Somerville, In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore.
Context: There patient show'd us the wise course to steer,
A candid censor, and a friend severe;
There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Affluent Society
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 9, Section II, p. 103