Quotes about die

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“What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.”

“You are all born free and equal, and free you shall all die.”

“Imagine that Jesus died on the cross. But who will be immortal in this world, or are you not going to die too my dear friend?”

“No one has committed so much sin in his life that he deserves to die twice.”

“It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs. He was asked what he was going to do with such a miserable beast, the poor creature would die. 'Do?' said he. 'I'm going to fat him up; don't you see that I have got him seal fat as high as the knees?'”

“If I knew I was going to die today, I think I should still want to hear the cricket scores.”

“Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.”

“Nobody wants to die, everybody wants to live, but the Russians want to rebuild a Russian empire and we don’t want to live in a Russian empire. The Russians try to put us on our knees, but we’re fighting right now for freedom and for the future of our children and our country.”

“If there is any treasure that will last until we die, it is love, care, sincerity, acceptance, kindness, friendship, integrity, wisdom and the memories we leave in the hearts of others.”

“In the end, it's just everyday life and forgetting, because there's nothing fantastic about people having to die every day.”

“He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!”

“I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.”

“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.”

“I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead. Well, I'm one of them. don't worry - I'm not like the Strigoi. But I did die once (I don't recommend it).”

“We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.”

“Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'

Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.”

“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden

Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”

“He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.”

“I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.
-Robert Jordan(The eye of the world, Wheel of time)”

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”

“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

“Would you rather die, or be unwound?”

“You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.”

“Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.”

“Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.”

“You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.”

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.”

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.”

“That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!”

“You have a choice. Live or die.
Every breath is a choice.
Every minute is a choice.
Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.”

“Polka will never die.”

“We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.”

“Are you guys busy?" Juniper asked.
"Well," I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die."
"We're not busy," Annabeth said.”

“What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos)
Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. (Zarek)”

“A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.”

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”

“How's it hangin' Harry?
I keep trying to die, but they won't let me.
Well, you can't have everything.”

“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

“Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment.
“I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—”
“Die?” Carter suggested.”

“Permanence:
Just because they die, she said, doesn't mean they go away.”

“I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.”

“Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.”

“I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.”

“What we live by we die by.”

“Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.”

“I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.”

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories.”

“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”

“I'm still not sure I didn't die”

“You might get lucky and die in some corner.
~Soi Fon”

“I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)”

“Move or die. (Quills)
Never give someone a choice that doesn’t leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)”

“Was it just her, or did lovers look more adoringly at each other in this city? Especially in the springtime.

'Die, bastards.'

She sighed. It wasn't their fault that they were bastards who should die.”

“You don't get it? He poisonded me! He poisonded me, and you're next. I'm going to die. We're all going to die."
-Seth”

“And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.”

“File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.”

“Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.”

“Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?”

“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”

“I'm not afraid," Rafi said.
"Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.”

“What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?”

“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.”

“fang will be the first to die”

“Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.”

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”

“Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips… Die into me or don't come to me at all.”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”

“I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”

“… every time you lose, you die a little, inside. Not all your organs… maybe just your liver.”

“I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.

The day you die.”

“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”

“Kill the body and the head will die.”

“When we can't dream any longer we die.”

“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”

“If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.”

“DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.”

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

“You have to give up! you have to give up!
You have to realize that someday you will die,
Until you know that, you are useless!”

“They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.”

“Look at her -- I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way -- what bliss.”

“Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.”

“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”

“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.”

“What are you, a baby? Jeez, if you’re going to kill humans, the least you could do is learn to die with some dignity. (Wulf)”

“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.”

“Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!”

“After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been.”

“It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”

“We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.”

“Only the good die young.”

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.”

“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”

“My dream is to die thinking "Wow, that was fun! I'm tired.”

“What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.”

“I’m tired of my life and my mind wants to die.”

“It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work… and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.”