Quotes about die
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“The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Water

“Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Reading

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Civilization

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Men, War, Home, Fight

“Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.”

Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) American fiction writer

Source: The Raven Warrior

Life, Death, Peace, Knowledge

“Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?”

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Source: The Dragon Reborn

“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
Source: Mockingjay

Dead

“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

World, Peace, Beauty, Thinking

“You die how you live.”

August Wilson Gem of the Ocean

Gem of the Ocean

“I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I
shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Truth, Art

“Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”

Darren Shan (1972) Irish writer of English-language fiction under pen name, real name Darren O'Shaughnessy

Life, Happiness, People, Way

“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”

Romain Gary book Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

Men

“Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Reading, Daughters

“Not my favourite topic, Smedley."
"Simon," said Simon. "if I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name."………

"Alright, everybody. Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea."
"Who's Sheldon?" Said Isabelle.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Idea

“It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

Feeling, Past, Animals

“Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Happiness

“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Truth

“It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End

“When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf
to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.
There's nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

Love, Happiness, Sun

“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Courage

“Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Surrender

“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Life, Fools, Time

“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

"Dreams," from the anthology Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, ed. Arna Bontemps (1941)

Life, Dreams, Bird, Flying

“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: I don't want to die without any scars.
Source: Fight Club

“If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?”

George Carlin When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Personality

“We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.”

Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl

Source: Downtown Owl

Personality

“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter

Lie

“And die of nothing but a rage to live”

Alexander Pope Moral Essays

Variant: You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Source: Moral Essays

Rage

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Variant: Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Source: Wishful Drinking

Drink, Waiting, Personality

“There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Disappointment

“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

#57
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
Source: Man and Superman

Men, Law

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

Ashley Montagu (1905–1999) British-American anthropologist

Idea, Deep, Powerful

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

Men

“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Time

“If you panic… you die.”

Gerry Conway

“Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Source: A Knight in Shining Armor

Soul

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying (1930)

People, World

“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

World

“To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.”

Hannah Senesh (1921–1944) Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II

Love, War, Light, Cry

“I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.”

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Source: Andy Warhol in His Own Words

People, Change

“I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon…. [disgustedly] in Cardiff!”

Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who

War, World, Tea, Box

“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die,
your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Soul

“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”

Irvine Welsh book Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

Life, Death

“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Dreams, Fish, Memory

“The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.
-Dionysus”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God, Stupidity, World, Perfection

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”

Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian

Cells (1988), pg. 23, Popular's Young Discoverer Series, Discovery Channel https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mrTYvoaUlTAC&pg=PA23

Life, Parting

“Will we ever stop being afraid of nights and death?

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Death, Fear, Star, Boy

“I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Life, Dreams

“Mari began to suspect that this reflection was going to prove to be like that little computer paperclip assistant -- at first it helps, but after a while you just want the paperclip to die.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

Help

“The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And musick shall untune the Sky.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

Grand Chorus. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day http://www.englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687 (1687) Source: The Major Works Context: So, when the last and dreadful Hour This crumbling Pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And musick shall untune the Sky.

Dead

“The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.”

Don DeLillo Underworld

Source: Underworld

Personality

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Source: Drum Taps

Boy, Thinking

“He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.”

Timothy Findley book The Wars

Source: The Wars

Love, Way

“You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

People

“Myrnin to Claire: "If anyone comes to bite you while I'm gone - well, try not to attract attention. Die quietly.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Daylighters

“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

Help

“Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

“The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Soul, Memory

“Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually wracked with pain.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

Love, Men, Pain, Beauty

“He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.”

Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia

Source: Bridge to Terabithia

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Men, Money, Dogs, Music

“The day Henry made a choice… that some men are just too interesting to die.”

Seth Grahame-Smith (1976) US fiction author

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Men

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

“What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c?”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 4: Unstoppable

“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Dead

“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

Children

“There are things of which I may not speak;
There are dreams that cannot die;
There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak,
And bring a pallor into the cheek,
And a mist before the eye.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Dreams, Strong, Heart

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”

Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

“She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy. Yes, that sounded good.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Life, Age, Way, Sleep

“I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

Love, Waiting

“Percy hefted a bronze grenade. ‘I hope you labelled these right.’
He yelled, ‘Die, Romans!’ and lobbed the grenade over the wall.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Hope

“Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

Time

“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Traveling Mercies
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Forgiveness, Drink, Waiting

“let you down
let you go
let you die”

Travis Thrasher

Solitary

“I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”

Temple Grandin (1947) USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist

Life, Money

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change”

Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits

Variant: Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Source: The House of the Spirits

World, Fear, Reality, Change