Quotes about die
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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
Source: The Origin of Species
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.”
Variant: I'm going to bed, where I may die.
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin”
Source: Lover at Last
“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”
Source: Go Ask Alice
“My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.”
“You're not going to die. I forbid it. All right?"
"All right," he whispers.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
"Deutsches Requiem" as translated by Julian Palley (1958)
“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”
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.
“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”
Part 8, Chapter 10 (p. 196)
Source: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.”
“We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.”
Source: Sharpshooter in Petticoats
Source: Burn for Me
“Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.”
Source: God-Shaped Hole
“Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”
Source: Believing God
“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”
Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4
“The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.”
Misattributed
“I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.”
“No, darling! To die it's easy… But you have to stuggle for life!”
Variant: To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
Source: The Complete Maus
Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
“Start here & go until you die, he said. What's so complicated about that?”
“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour…”
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
Source: The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
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)
“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”
Source: The Ring of Solomon
“Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?”
Statement to the Associated Press, five days before his death. (13 May 1981)
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
“You live you die and death not ends it.”
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
“Be glad you're even alive.'
Be furious you're going to die.”
Source: Catch 22
“I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.”
And I'm gonna stay here and rock the mike until the next Korean-American, fag hag, shit starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place!
From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour
“Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.”
Source: Faithless
“What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal… and then die.”
“some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I want to live till I die. No more, no less.”
Music, When Soft Voices Die http://www.readprint.com/work-1367/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley (1821)
Source: The Complete Poems