Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
WTF Is…? series, Day One: Garry's Incident (October 1, 2013)
Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
“I fail to do
What I'm trying
I've been these walls
And everyone who dies
Hears other times”
John Frusciante (1970) American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer
In Rime
Lyrics, To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2000)
“Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!”
Gaston Leroux (1868–1927) French writer
John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer
Source: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 9, “Wings” (p. 142)
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
Said to one of his students, according to "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils" by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Night World, No. 2
“So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: The Complete Short Stories
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
The Serpent, in Pt. I : In the Beginning, Act I; this quote is sometimes misattributed to Robert F. Kennedy; it is often paraphrased slightly in a few different ways, including:
You see things as they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things as they never were and ask, "Why not?"
Variant: You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)