Quotes about die page 9

“To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!!

Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)”

T.D. Jakes (1957) American bishop

Love, Drink, Waiting

“He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father."
He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples."
He nice, the Jesus.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“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

“the tired sunsets and the tired
people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

People, Time

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

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Gift

Problem

“Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Time, Past, Dead

“One question," I said. "Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die?"
"No," he said. "It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too."
"I'll take that as a yes," I said.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

Question, Thinking

“Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works”

Danielle Steel book Friends Forever

Source: Friends Forever

Love, Pain, People, Change

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

“To a Young Poet

Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.

No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: Collected Poems

Bird, Time

“A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”

Clive Barker book Imajica

Source: Imajica

Love

“Clarabelle laughed like she'd just heard the funniest thing ever. "Of course you HOPE you won't die, Valkyrie! Who would HOPE to die? That's just SILLY! But you probably WILL die, that's what I'm saying. Don't you think so?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

Hope, Thinking

“Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

Way, Suffering

“Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Friendship, Flowers, Water

“Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.”

George Harrison book I, Me, Mine

Source: I, Me, Mine

“True love cannot die.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Love

“So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.”

Robin McKinley Dragonhaven

Source: Dragonhaven

Hell

“There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”

Beryl Markham book West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

Life, Wisdom, Age

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

Frank Delaney (1942–2017) Irish writer and journalist

Shannon

Soul

“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Death

“Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Life, Smile

“I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

World

“Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Failure

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

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 3

Love, People, Beauty, Change

“To die of yearning for something you will never experience”

Alessandro Baricco book Silk

Variant: It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.
Source: Silk

“She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die?
-Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.”

Christine Feehan book Dark Prince

Source: Dark Prince

“I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.”

Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer

Smile, Hurt

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

John Kenneth Galbraith book The Affluent Society

Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 9, Section II, p. 103

Food

“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

Truth

“Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Hurt

“Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.”

Herman Melville book Moby-Dick

Source: Moby Dick

Secret, Soul, Learning

“Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?'
'I'm called Chocho,' Will said…
'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

“Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Girl, Suffering, Selfishness

“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

Death

“He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."
…
Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Life, Beauty, Light

“How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?”

Stephen King book Guns

Source: Guns

“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

People, Dreams

“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

“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love (1920), Ch. 15

“Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.”

James Patterson book Kiss the Girls

Source: Kiss the Girls

Love

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know."
He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. " I know," he said. "everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”

Francois Truffaut (1932–1984) film director

Happiness, Books, Music

“No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Thirst No. 3: The Eternal Dawn

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.”

Louisa May Alcott book Jo's Boys

Source: Jo's Boys

Men

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

Jack Kerouac book Visions of Cody

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

Tear, Cry

“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Silence

“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Life, People, Problem, Time

“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games

Change

“How we live our lives does not, unfortunately depend on us alone. Circumstances, good or bad, constantly intervene. A person close to us die. A person not so close to us carries on living. All these things affect how we live.”

Tariq Ali (1943) British Pakistani writer, journalist, and historian

Source: The Stone Woman

Dependency, Personality

“What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?”

Neal Shusterman book Everlost

Source: Everlost

Stupidity, Way

“My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life.”

Lee Iacocca (1924–2019) American businessman

“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

Life, Way, Time

“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.

Time

“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

“I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished.”

Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) American Modernist writer, poet and artist

Silence

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Love, Heartbreaking, For Him, For Mother

“If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.”

Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story

Source: Super Sad True Love Story

“Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Way, Fish

“Whither thou goest, I will go;
Where thou diest, will I die
And there will I be buried:
The Angel do so to me, and more also,
If aught but death part thee and me.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Death, Angels, Parting

“I’m not attached to anything.
I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.
I think that I will die with the boots on.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba

Feeling, Thinking

“It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend

People, Way, Understanding, Change

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

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Dreams

“I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“Have you no honor? No decency? No damn brains? You don’t kill me with bullets. You just piss me off. And you just ruined my friggin’ favorite coat. For that, you die. (Wulf)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

“Before I die, I want to fight for life.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Life, Fight

“You're not going to die?"
"Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

God

“But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Nature, Silence

“Die? Then so be it.”

Eiji Yoshikawa

“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Life, Death

“… she studied his clothes, his top hat. “And you’ve just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?”

“It’s much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don’t fall in line, you’ll leave them to die.”

Meljean Brook (1977)

Source: The Iron Duke

Study, Clothes

“What are you? (a Daimon)
Oh please, let me give you the job description. Me, Dark-Hunter. You, Daimon. I hit, you bleed. I kill, you die. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride