Quotes about die
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“And after a while… I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that… well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Life, People, Parting

“Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

Death, Dreams

“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

Source: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter VII: "Instinct", page 244 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=262&itemID=F373&viewtype=image <br class="br">Source: The Origin of Species

Law

“I am about life. I’m gonna live as hard as i can and as full as i can until i die. And i’m not letting these parasites, these oppressors, these greedy racist swine make me kill my children in my mind, before they are even born.”

Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

Life, Children, Swine

“I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.”

Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer

Source: Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose

Life, People, World, Thinking

“I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Variant: I'm going to bed, where I may die.
Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Ash? Get bent and die.”

L.J. Smith book Daughters of Darkness

Daughters of Darkness

“I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Lie, Understanding, Fight

“You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin”

Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970) Japanese manga artist

Courage

“Will you get off me!"
"But I'm giving you CPR-"
"I will die before kissing you, Hollywood." Z tried to sit up, his breathing heavy.
"Don't even think about it.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Kiss, Thinking

“He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

“To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”

Michel Houellebecq (1956) writer

“I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Ruthless

Love, Guy

“My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

“Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

Boy

“Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley."
"Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Cats

“You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?"

"All right," he whispers.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“How young can you die of old age?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Age

“Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Life

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

Life, Death, Secret, World

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Love, Way, Feeling, Suffering

“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”

Clive Barker book Absolute Midnight

Source: Absolute Midnight

Love, Death, Way, Despair

“Gaara: Can Sasuke come out to Die?
Kakashi: Not Now.
Gaara:………….
Gaara: How 'bout now?”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

“You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Lie, Feeling

“Malicious men may die, but malice never.”

Molière book Tartuffe

Source: Tartuffe

Men

“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Deutsches Requiem

"Deutsches Requiem" as translated by Julian Palley (1958)

Religion

“You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Learning

“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Variant: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die.
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.
Source: Sabriel
Context: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.

Time

“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”

Joanna Russ book The Female Man

Part 8, Chapter 10 (p. 196)
Source: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)

Boy

“How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.”

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) English poet

People, Imagination

“In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Love, Parting

“We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.”

Mary Connealy (1956) Author

Source: Sharpshooter in Petticoats

“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

People, Heart, Hurt

“Maybe you should make me a list of people I can kill and ways in which they’re allowed to die,” he said. “You are not funny.” “I’m very funny.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

People, Way

“Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Suicide

“My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared”

Mary Kay Ash (1918–2001) Entrepreneur

Life, Way

“Many seek and never see,
anyone can tell them why.
O they weep and O they cry
and never take until they try
unless they try it in their sleep
and never some until they die.
I ask many, they ask me.
This is a great mystery.”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Source: Collected Poems 1947-1997

Sleep, Cry

“Stranger, pause and look;
From the dust of ages
Lift this little book,
Turn the tattered pages,
Read me, do not let me die!
Search the fading letters finding
Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: Collected Poems

Books, Age, Search, Reading

“Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

“… if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Source: Believing God

God, Departure

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4

Idea

“The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Love, Truth

“You can choose to die. You can choose to run… but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change… you're going to have to live.”

Kazuya Minekura (1975) Japanese manga artist

Change

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Misattributed

Life, Death, Fear, Time

“I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“No, darling! To die it's easy… But you have to stuggle for life!”

Art Spiegelman (1948) cartoonist from the United States

Variant: To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
Source: The Complete Maus

Life

“I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Love, Beauty, Art, Feeling

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005)

People

“See Scott run,
Run Scott run.
See Scott die,
No such luck.”

David Lubar book Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

“Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury
you. I already buried everyone else."

"How can I die," Alexander said, his voice breaking, "when you
have poured your immortal blood into me?”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Thinking

“Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Cry

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy

Life, People

“We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

Love, Life, Death, Money

“Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“Yotsuba: I’ll get revenge! … I’m going!

Jumbo (in a suffering manner): Yotsuba… please, come back alive…

Yotsuba (heroic): Alright. Even if I die… I’ll come back alive.

—–Yotsuba!”

Kiyohiko Azuma (1968) Japanese manga artist

Source: Yotsuba&!, Vol. 03

Revenge, Suffering

“What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

Madness, Dead

“the beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left, they were so
beautiful.

they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Beauty, Understanding, Silence

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Love

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more…”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Love, Life, People, Cry

“And I could always set Coach Hedge on fire,” Leo volunteered. “Then he can be fire.” The thought of a blazing satyr screaming, “Die, scumbag!” as he attacked Gaea was almost enough to make Piper laugh— almost.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour…”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”

James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room

Source: Giovanni's Room

Love, Death, Time

“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Wise

“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

Source: The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

Life, Hope

“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

Dreams, Drink, Sleep

“I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

World, Waiting

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)

War, Dogs, Country

“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Ring of Solomon

Source: The Ring of Solomon

“Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Statement to the Associated Press, five days before his death. (13 May 1981)

“Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase

“Today will die tomorrow.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic

“That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”

L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter

People, World, Tree

“Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

Death

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Variant: The gun slipped on Emily's temple, and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
Source: The Pact

Pain, Heart

“You live you die and death not ends it.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: We live, we die
and death not ends it
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it

Death

“I shall gain glory or die.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Source: Beowulf

“I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

Death, Forgiveness

“To be immortal and then die”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

Source: Breathless

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Embrace the Night

“Be glad you're even alive.'
Be furious you're going to die.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch 22

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Understanding

“Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Fight

“There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Women, Pleasure

“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Love, People

“I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

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