Quotes about die
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Tess Gerritsen photo

“You don't have to die to go to hell.”

Source: The Sinner

Rick Riordan photo
Richard Matheson photo

“How
long did it take for a past to die?”

Source: I Am Legend

Christopher Marlowe photo
Cormac McCarthy photo
Elie Wiesel photo
Ann Brashares photo
George Bernard Shaw photo
Brandon Sanderson photo
T.D. Jakes photo
David Sedaris photo
Paul Celan photo

“How you die out in me:

down to the last
worn-out
knot of breath
you're there, with a
splinter
of life.”

Paul Celan (1920–1970) Romanian poet and translator

Source: Poems of Paul Celan

Cecelia Ahern photo

“Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Gift

Haruki Murakami photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Maureen Johnson photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Edna St. Vincent Millay photo
Derek Landy photo
Thomas Wolfe photo
David Nicholls photo
George Harrison photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Robin McKinley photo
Beryl Markham photo
Frank Delaney photo

“Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.”

Frank Delaney (1942–2017) Irish writer and journalist

Shannon

Holly Black photo
Ayn Rand photo
Jack Kerouac photo

“People Die…
Beauty Fades…
Love Changes…
And You Will Always Be Alone”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 3

Alessandro Baricco photo

“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

John Kenneth Galbraith photo

“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

Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Louisa May Alcott photo
Herman Melville photo
John Flanagan photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Anne Lamott photo

“If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that's death.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Mario Puzo photo
Stephen King photo
Jonathan Kozol photo

“A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives…”

Jonathan Kozol (1936) American activist and educator

Source: Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

Stephen E. Ambrose photo

“Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.”

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002) American historian

Source: Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

D.H. Lawrence photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Anne Rice photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Francois Truffaut photo
Louisa May Alcott photo
Jack Kerouac photo

“It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now”

girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
Visions of Cody (1960)

Audre Lorde photo
Douglas Adams photo
Suzanne Collins photo

“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

Tariq Ali photo
Lee Iacocca photo
Jimi Hendrix photo

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

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

If 6 Was 9
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Source: Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

Gore Vidal photo

“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

Quoted in The Sunday Times Magazine, London (16 September 1973).
1970s
Variant: Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Ernest Hemingway photo
Djuna Barnes photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Fidel Castro photo

“You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.”

Source: Rose Under Fire

Haruki Murakami photo
Rick Riordan photo
Libba Bray photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Hunter S. Thompson photo
Mitch Albom photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
William Goldman photo
Rob Sheffield photo

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

Holly Black photo

“Death’s favorites don’t die.”

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

John Milton photo

“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

On Shakespeare (1630)
Source: The Complete Poetry

Rick Riordan photo
Dalton Trumbo photo