Quotes about die
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“If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.”
“No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.”
Source: 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
“How you die out in me:
down to the last
worn-out
knot of breath
you're there, with a
splinter
of life.”
Source: Poems of Paul Celan
“the tired sunsets and the tired
people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”
“Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem”
Source: The Gift
“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.”
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”
Source: Imajica
“Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.”
“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”
Shannon
“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“People Die…
Beauty Fades…
Love Changes…
And You Will Always Be Alone”
Source: Night World, No. 3
“To die of yearning for something you will never experience”
Variant: It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.
Source: Silk
“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 9, Section II, p. 103
“The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die”
Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Source: Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Source: Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
Source: Women in Love (1920), Ch. 15
“I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.”
Source: Invincible
Source: Thirst No. 3: The Eternal Dawn
“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”
Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games
“What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?”
Source: Everlost
If 6 Was 9
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Source: Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”
Quoted in The Sunday Times Magazine, London (16 September 1973).
1970s
Variant: Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.”
Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
“But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape
“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”
On Shakespeare (1630)
Source: The Complete Poetry