Quotes about die
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“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

People, Family, Family

“I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J. K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.”

Harold Bloom (1930–2019) American literary critic and scholar

Sadness, Reading

“Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Death, Night

“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

Love, People, Forgetting

“I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.”

Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Dreams, Feeling, Thinking

“Date etiquette lesson number two: Don't die. Go on living.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Dance Dance Dance

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Source: [As attributed by Alastair Reid in, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

Books

“Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?"
"I'll try,"I told him seriously.
"You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Thinking

“I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again…”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

Love, Way, Dead

“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: Every Last One

Love

“It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

God, Sleep

“And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

Smile, Cats, Time

“for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Men, Question

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Ain't She Sweet

Love, God, Happiness, Waiting

“There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.”

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

Men, Courage

“They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Death, Fear

“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

People, Light

“Still clutching each other by the arm, they turned to watch the last stones plummet over the edge.

“I don't know how many times a day I can stand to watch you almost die,” Seregil gasped.

“Twice is my limit,” croaked Alec, sinking to his knees.”

Lynn Flewelling Luck in the Shadows

Source: Luck in the Shadows

Time

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Life, Feeling, Silence, Grass

“Sorrow and loss never die. We can put them away in a chest and lock it tight, but whenever it is opened, even a crack, the aroma of lost sweetness will rise to fill our lungs to heaviness.”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Quest

Source: Fool's Quest

Loss

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”

Mary Renault book The Persian Boy

Source: The Persian Boy

“You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

Life, Happiness, Time

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.”

Anaïs Nin book The Diary of Anaïs Nin

The Diary of Anaïs Nin , Volume One 1931-1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Death, Children, Pleasure, Books

“I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Love

“Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…”

Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure

Source: Jude the Obscure

“Either things grow and change or they die.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Change

“Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly -- I've just met you -- but I don't want you to die."

"And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why -- I've just met you -- but I do.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Feeling

“Don't die. Don't die! You don't have to win. You don't have to keep trying! Just don't get hurt anymore, please!”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Hurt

“All geniuses die young.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one’s own novel.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

Beauty, Despair

“The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

Way, Change, Past

“Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Variant: Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
Source: His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995), Ch. 21 : Lord Asriel's Welcome

Death

“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”

Andrew M. Greeley (1928–2013) Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist

Life, Death, Disease, Hope

“All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

Heart

“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it’s not poison”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues

“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Variant: When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.
Source: Atlas Shrugged

Hope, Hell

“I know
the odds are all against me
and I know
you might not feel this way too
but I know
I would rather die trying
to know
if I could mean something to you”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Way, Feeling

“There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

People

“Life is hard and then we die!”

Barbara Johnson (1947–2009) American literary critic

Life

“You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Age, Hell

“I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

“I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die.
--Natalya Shonski”

Christine Feehan book Dark Demon

Source: Dark Demon

Time

“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes

World, Faith

“Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die…”

Margaret Drabble (1939) Novelist, biographer and critic

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Fate, Birth

“There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

Fear

“Drowning people
Sometimes die
Fighting their rescuers.”

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer

People, Fight

“If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Drive down any road,

take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your old life behind,

die and be born again~
wherever you arrive
they'll be there first,

glossy and rowdy
and indistinguishable.
The deep muscle of the world.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Life, World, Training

“If you will die for me,
I will die for you
and our graves will be like two lovers washing
their clothes together
in a laundromat
If you will bring the soap
I will bring the bleach.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Lovers, Clothes

“That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“You should have had the decency to die when you needed to."
“Sorry,” I admitted. “I’ve been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it’s almost over.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die… and accepts his sentence undismayed.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Age, Learning, Personality, Adulthood

“They never fail who die
In a great cause.”

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

Marino Faliero, Act II, Scene 2, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I do not laugh; I do not cry;
I'm sweating out the will to die.

My past is sliding down the drain;
I soon will be myself again.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Past, Cry

“Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

Source: View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Love, People, Faith

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”

John Banville The Sea

Source: The Sea

Dead

“Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Past, Falseness

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Forgiveness

“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to heaven
You find no policeman there”

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician

“Amy: Pond and her boys… my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a peruvian folk band.”

Simon Nye (1958) British screenwriter

Boy

“I am not the least afraid to die”

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

“A small fact:
You are going to die…. does this worry you?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.
Source: The Book Thief

“Can I come back and see you sometime?"
"Long as you bring me some chocolate," Gramma said, and smiled. "I'm partial to chocolate."
"Gramma, you're diabetic."
"I'm old, girl. Gonna die of something. Might as well be chocolate.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

Smile, Girl

“Beware
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease”

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer

War, People, Disease, Peace

“Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Life, Beauty

“Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

God, Happiness

“The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.”

Sarah Dunant book The Birth of Venus

Source: The Birth of Venus

“The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live….”

Anne Brontë book Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey

Religion

“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”

Raymond Chandler book The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

“What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Variant: Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167

Life, Money

“But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Feeling, Parent, Fight, For Parents

“But you didn't die."
"Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.”

Robin Wasserman (1978) American writer of speculative fiction for young people

Source: The Book of Blood and Shadow

Love

“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold

Books, Parting

“In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

Men

“I can't let you go. I'll never do that. not until I die.”

Kresley Cole book The Warlord Wants Forever

The Warlord Wants Forever

“Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (…) What you can't understand, you destroy.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

Understanding

“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Death, Food

“Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And… if you can, die smiling.
(Isshin Kurosaki)”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Age, Smile

“Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J. R. Ward”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

Love, Death, Strong

“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

Dreams

“Live full, die empty.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Variant: Live full, die empty

“Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Suicide

“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

Singing, Personality

“It's so beautiful here. You must come before you die.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Paris in Love

Beauty

“NO! Don't force yourself to be alone! If you're alive, you can meet that person, somewhere, someday! The person that will be glad that you're alive! You can't… you can't want yourself to die!! So… live…”

Yukiru Sugisaki (1974) Manga artist

Personality

“Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Hate, Stupidity

“When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart.”

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet

Heart

“The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard… Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Certain Girls

Love, Life, People, Truth

“Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness…”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Music, Silence, Time

“It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer

Fear

“When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Feeling

“I thought you were dead.
Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.”

Patricia Briggs book Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

Stupidity, Dead

“I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Love, Dead

“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.”

John Irving book The World According to Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

Life

“Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

World, Way, Time

“Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Death

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