“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous Obscure
“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.”
Gene Wolfe book Starwater Strains
"The Arimaspin Legacy" (1987), first appeared as a Winter Solstice chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction
“Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,
Befits proud birth.”
ἀλλ᾽ ἢ καλῶς ζῆν ἢ καλῶς τεθνηκέναι
τὸν εὐγενῆ χρή
Source: Ajax, Lines 479-480
“"I die, I die!" the Mother said,
"My children die for lack of Bread."”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Grey Monk, stanza 1
1810s, Miscellaneous poems and fragments from the Nonesuch edition
“Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird?”
Meg Cabot book All American Girl
Source: All-American Girl
“We are all children until our fathers die.”
Melissa Bank book The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing