Quotes about die page 16
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer
The 2,000 Year Old Man (and sequels)
Variant: Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Interview http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/int/shelton1978.07.29.html with Robert Shelton, Melody Maker (29 July 1978)
“I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.”
Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.”
Tom Clancy book Against All Enemies
Source: Against All Enemies
“Oh, god,” I said. “Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?”
--Sadie to Zia”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Variant: A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 241, said by Colonel Aureliano Buendía
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.”
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Journal entry (November 1951) as published in the Kerouac ROMnibus http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/resguide/resources/j100.html
“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer
Source: Suicide Notes
Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités ont leur mélancolie, car ce que nous quittons, c'est une partie de nous-mêmes; il faut mourir à une vie pour entrer dans une autre.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
“I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Source: The Very Best of Johnny Cash
“You can still die when the sun is shining.”
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Source: The Magnetic Fields
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I want to kiss you one more time before I die.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Crumbs from Your Table"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
“I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.”
Julian Barnes (1946) English writer
Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of
“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack”
William Carlos Williams book Journey to Love
'of what is found there.'
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Source: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“The best way to die is when your living”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”
William Faulkner book If I Forget Thee
Source: The Wild Palms
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
“I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.”
Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.”
Richelle Mead book Frostbite
Source: Frostbite
“Redeemers always reach the world too late.
God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.”
Peter Porter (1929–2010) British poet
"A Tale of Two Pieties", in The Chair of Babel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) p. 51.
Johann de Kalb (1721–1780) American general
In August 1780, as quoted in "Death of Baron De Kalb" https://books.google.com/books?id=k2QAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234&dq=%22I+thank+you+sir+for+your+generous+sympathy,+but+I+die+the+death+I+always+prayed+for:+the+death+of+a+soldier+fighting+for+the+rights+of+man%22&source=bl&ots=-93hJzoCYU&sig=tAag8ObQI-ZjiII56viczov02wM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VlYVVcuJI4KmNsazgYgL&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22I%20thank%20you%20sir%20for%20your%20generous%20sympathy%2C%20but%20I%20die%20the%20death%20I%20always%20prayed%20for%3A%20the%20death%20of%20a%20soldier%20fighting%20for%20the%20rights%20of%20man%22&f=false (1849), by Benjamin Franklin Ells, The Western Miscellany, Volume 1, p. 233. <br class="br">1780s
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)
John Dickinson (1732–1808) American politician
From The Declaration upon taking up Arms, before Congress, July 6th, 1775: as cited in A Conspectus of American Biography, Volume 1, ed. George Derby, J. T. White (1906), p. 239
“How sweet to die after one’s enemies.”
Il est doux de périr après ses ennemis.
Cléopâtre, act V, scene i.
Rodogune (1644)
Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
“Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.”
Arthur M. Jolly (1969) American writer
DIane, Act I, Scene 2
Trash (2012)
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
1995, p. 229; As cited in: Jay W. Rojews (2004) International Perspectives on Workforce Education and Development. p. xi
1980s - 1990s, High Output Management (1983)
“In politics, you live by the sword, and you die by the sword.”
Nick Clegg (1967) British politician
At the election count in 2017 at Sheffield Hallam, where he lost his seat in the House of Commons. https://news.sky.com/video/clegg-you-live-by-the-sword-you-die-by-the-sword-10909195 Sky News (9 June 2017) <br class="br">2017
Kenneth Griffin (1968) American hedge fund manager
"Citadel Boss Won't Be Hedging On Day Job," Chicago Tribune (March 2006) http://www.healthdecisions.org/StopLossReinsurance/News/default.aspx?doc_id=58379 <br class="br">On competition among hedge funds.
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Regarding John Brown, as quoted in A Lecture On John Brown http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mfd&fileName=22/22002/22002page.db&recNum=9&tempFile=./temp/~ammem_rvc6&filecode=mfd&next_filecode=mfd&prev_filecode=mfd&itemnum=2&ndocs=32
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Quoted in Steven Daly, "The Maverick King," Vanity Fair (November 2004)