“So you are dying for love, then," Will said finally, his voice sounding constricted to his own ears.
'Dying a little faster for love. And there are worse things to die for.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
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“I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.”
Eloisa James (1962) American academic
Source: When Beauty Tamed the Beast
“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
“Jace is in love with the idea of dying,” said Isabelle.”
Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“He whom the gods protect : the youth is dying whilst he is in health, and has his senses and his judgment sound.”
Quem di diligent, adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.
Bacchides Act IV, scene 7, line 18.
Variant translation: He whom the gods love dies young. (translator unknown)
Derived from Menander's The Double Deceiver; but only the Plautine version was known until the rediscovery of Menander in the 20th century; sometimes translated as "favor" instead of "love".
Bacchides (The Bacchises)
Ichabod Spencer (1798–1854) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 601.
Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823–1882) American politician
Reported in Benjamin H. Hill, Jr., Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia; His Life, Speeches and Writings (1893), epigraph, p. 594. From "Notes on the Situation", a series of articles appearing in the Chronicle and Sentinel, Atlanta, Georgia.