I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.
- Edward Abbey
Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.
- Mark Twain
To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadablelike Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
- Mark Twain
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Shoglig was talking shit. That old bitch didn't know when I was going to die at all. If I'd known that I'd surely have worn more armour.' Whirrun made a sound somewhere between a cough and a laugh, then winced, coughed, laughed again, winced again. 'Fuck, it hurts. I mean, you know it will, but, fuck, it really does hurt. Guess you showed me my destiny anyway, eh, Craw?
- Joe Abercrombie
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.
- Aberjhani
I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
- F Murray Abraham
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
- Dean Acheson
He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits."
"Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.
- Marta Acosta
Three Rings for Elven-Kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie
- J R R Tolkien
Three Rings for the Elvin-Kings under the Sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone,
NIne for Mortal-men doomed to die,
One for the Dark-Lord on his Dark throne,
In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie,
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all,
And in the Darkness bind them,
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
- J R R Tolkien
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
- J R R Tolkien
Three Rings for the Eleven-Kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on this dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the the Shadows lie
- J R R Tolkien
I will not debate with you Dark Elf. By the swords of the Noldor alone are your sunless woods defended. Your freedom to wander there wild you owe to my kin and but for them long since you would have laboured in thraldom in the pits of Angband. And here I am King and whether you will it or will it not my doom is law. This choice is given to you: abide here or to die here and so also for your son.
- J R R Tolkien
You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.
- Douglas Adams
I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!
- Douglas Adams
So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
"Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
"What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
"No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.
- Douglas Adams
Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!"
"Terrific," said Arthur.
"But don't you see what this means?"
"Yes. We are going to die."
"Yes, but apart from that."
"Apart from that?!"
"It means we must be on to something!"
"How soon can we get off it?
- Douglas Adams
A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.
- Joey Lauren Adams
You and I ought not to die,before we have explained ourselves to each other.
- John Adams
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
- Joseph Addison
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
- Aeschylus
There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn't notice that the heart is gone.
- Ann Aguirre
...afraid of damn near everything. But I refuse to let it paralyze me. I won't be the woman who cowers behind four walls, never taking chances. I want to die like I've lived. I always wanted to be larger than life.
- Ann Aguirre
I try to think of something helpful to say. I'm not going to die -- but I don't know that. We live in a dangerous world, and I am not so attached to life that I will do anything to survive. I can't reassure him.
- Veronica Roth
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
- Abu Hamid Al Ghazali
Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're going to die, too. This is serious. Fuck fuck fuck.
- Elisa Albert
ness-that Morrie was looking at life from some very different place than anyone else I knew. A healthier place. A more sensible place. And he was about to die.
But it was also becoming clear to me- through his courage, his humor, his patience, and his openIf some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.
- Mitch Albom
Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
- Mitch Albom
He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children.
"I do not want to die," she whispered.
"You will not die."
"I want to be with you."
"You are.
- Mitch Albom
Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
- Mitch Albom
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to diem it's also the positive that you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
- Mitch Albom
It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
- Mitch Albom
When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
- Mitch Albom
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
- Mitch Albom
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.
- Mitch Albom
Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.
- Mitch Albom
Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
- Mitch Albom
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
- Mitch Albom
That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."
Eddie shook his head. "We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain't fair."
The Blue Man held out his hand. "Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
- Mitch Albom
it's natural to die...the fact that we make a big hullabaloo over it, is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies.
- Mitch Albom
You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.
- Mitch Albom
We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
- Mitch Albom
What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.
- Paulo Coelho
Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you know you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die.
- Paulo Coelho
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
- Paulo Coelho
But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.
- Paulo Coelho
I wake up each morning wanting to die before the day is out, but I continue to live, suffering and fighting, fighting and suffering, clinging on to that certainty that it will all end one day.
- Paulo Coelho
...to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.
- Paulo Coelho
Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
- Morrie Schwartz
As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.
- Jodi Picoult
If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
- Jodi Picoult
I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.
- Jodi Picoult
Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
- Jodi Picoult
Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.
- Jodi Picoult
The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
- Jodi Picoult
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
DENNIS, in order to die, one must first be alive."
"Quod erat demonstrandum. Oh, yes, and also: I think, therefore I am.
- Keith Caserta
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
- Louisa May Alcott
So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something.
- Louisa May Alcott
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
- Vittorio Alfieri
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
- Vittorio Alfieri
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
- Jesse Jackson
Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so--disappointed.
- Cassandra Clare
Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of it all.
- Cassandra Clare
You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement
- Cassandra Clare
Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.
- Cassandra Clare
If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want the to die of excitement.
- Cassandra Clare
Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley."
"Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.
- Cassandra Clare
If we are going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of them left, and I don't want them to die of excitement.
- Cassandra Clare
at points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we're willing to die on.
- Christa Allan
All the passengers were crowded over on the landside of the ship, watching through the narrow windows the careened hulk of a freighter, visibly damaged by shellfire, which had driven ashore to beach her cargo. She lay aground, looking against the sand in that clear water like a whale with smokestacks that had come to the beach to die.
- Ernest Hemingway
I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
- Ernest Hemingway
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
- Ernest Hemingway
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
- Ernest Hemingway
If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die one it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.
- Ernest Hemingway
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.
- Sarah Addison Allen
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
- John Ruskin
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen
I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens
- Andy Warhol
We're not going to die. You're with me kiddo and it just happens I know a few survival skills."
"Oh yeah right. Like carrying your Visa Gold in case the restaurant doesn't accept American Express.
- Janet Evanovich
I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.
- Dorothy Allison
Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die.
Mara
- Aaron Allston
I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen.
- Nicole Krauss
And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)
- Nicole Krauss
Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die.
- David Almond
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
- Stewart Alsop
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
- Alexandre Dumas
I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.'
'Do you mean to say that if I left you---'
'I'd die, yes.'
'Then you love me?
- Alexandre Dumas
Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!
- Alexandre Dumas
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 Ambrose
Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.
- Stephen Ambrose
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
- Idi Amin
He knew now that he was going to die. But he had one last mission from Beckett. I have to finish this.
The man leaned in close, and Mouse jabbed his arm out and up, thrilled to see the speed his hand provided for his final act as Beckett's bodyguard.
All three were dead. I did it, Beckett. I saved your brother.
- Debra Anastasia
No one will hear this one, so you should be able to get out of here. I'm so sorry. I caused you the most unimaginable pain. It would be my honor to die at your hand, if it gives you even a moment's peace.
- Debra Anastasia
He kissed Kyle, checking to see that her eyes stayed sure and real. They did. Instead of saint and sinner, they were man and woman now. When Cole finally tasted her skin, the flavor was honeysuckle. Heaven was not something he had to die to enjoy. Kyle was here now.
- Debra Anastasia
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?
- Laurie Halse Anderson
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
- Kevin J Anderson
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
It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.
- Ilona Andrews
You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist.
She snarled. Heh.
- Ilona Andrews
My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.
- Hermann Hesse
Which father, which teacher, could prevent him from living his own life, from soiling himself with life, from loading himself with sin, from swallowing the bitter drink himself, from finding his own path? Do you think, my dear friend, that anybody is spared this path? Perhaps your little son, because you would like to see him spared sorrow and pain and disillusionment? But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest.
- Hermann Hesse
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
- Hermann Hesse
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
- Susan B Anthony
Hughes: (Talking for Mustang) 'I won't allow you to die under my jurisdiction because it'd be a pain to clean up the mess.' That's what he said.
Edward: Fine. Tell him, 'Understood. I'll never die before you, colonel, you @#'$ idiot.'
Hughes: Ha ha ha! They say the ruder you are, the luckier you are! In that case, you and Roy are gonna live forever!
- Hiromu Arakawa
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
- Plato
Lord, it was expensive to die
- Lisa Kleypas
Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.
- Meg Cabot
What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.
- Meg Cabot
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon
- Aristotle
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
most suicidal teens are different; they're tempted to kill themselves. with me, i know i need to die; i should be killed for the things i've done. but i keep feeling this nudge, this TEMPTATION TO LIVE. and everyday i pray to god that i never lose that temptation.
- Jake Vander Ark
Yesterday I went to the doctor, to see about these dizzy spells. He told me that I have developed what used to be called a heart, as if healthy people didn't have one. It seems I will not after all keep on living forever, merely getting smaller and greyer and dustier, like Sibyl in her bottle. Having long ago whispered I want to die, I now realise that this wish will indeed be fulfilled, and sooner rather than later. No matter that I've changed my mind.
- Margaret Atwood
Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
- Margaret Atwood
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
- Thomas Carlyle
I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in.
"He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.
- Melina Marchetta
You're going to go living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take eighty years and you do something in that time, whether it's giving birth to a baby or being a housewife or a barrister or a soldier. You've accomplished something. To throw that away at such a young age, to have no hope, is the biggest tragedy.
- Melina Marchetta
They camped that night under a full moon and a sky crowded with stars that made Froi forget that there was an old man waiting to die and remember that there was a kingdom dying to live.
- Melina Marchetta
Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.
- Melina Marchetta
Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protector and guide for as long as he lived. Lucian vowed he would be the light whom they traveled toward in times of need.
- Melina Marchetta
Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.
- Melina Marchetta
In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.
- Edward St Aubyn
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
- W H Auden
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
- W H Auden
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
- Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
- Francis Bacon
What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born, to die?
- Francis Bacon
It is natural to die as to be born.
- Francis Bacon
Life kicks you and you begin to die, it kicks you again and you don't care anymore, it kicks you one last time and it puts hate it in your heart, the treachery of it all.
- J M August
I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.
- Julia Quinn
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
- Paul Auster
I was looking for a quiet place to die.
- Paul Auster
If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight.
- Emilie Autumn
My reasons to live
Were my reasons to die
But at least they were mine
Now I've freedom unbound
Cut the laces of life
- Emilie Autumn
We have truth in order not to die of art.
- Steve Aylett
The law is where reality goes to die.
- Steve Aylett
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
- Richard Bach
One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.
- Kelli Jae Baeli
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In some remote conner of the universe, poured out and glittering innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals inventd knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mandacious minute of the "world history" -- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die.
- Jim Baen
A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.
- Will Christopher Baer
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
- Arthur Baer
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
- Joan Baez
We each have a story. They did this to us. There was no outside aggressor. They wanted an Apocalypse. They wanted the end. And they made it happen. It was orchestrated - who got in, who didn't. There was a master list. We weren't on it. We were left here to die. They want to erase us, the past, but we can't let them.
- Julianna Baggott
Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?"
Probably. Why?"
Just wanted confirmation.
- David Baldacci
If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.
- James Baldwin
He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
- James Baldwin
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids. I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.
- Oscar Wilde
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- Oscar Wilde
ALGERNON
Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.
LADY BRACKNELL
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
- Oscar Wilde
Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that," Garrett said gruffly. "You'll have me convinced I'm going to die."
"You're not?
- Maya Banks
That it's possible to be against the circus, not because you're afraid to die there, but because it's wicked and wrong.
- Lynne Reid Banks
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
- William Banting
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.
- Muriel Barbery
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
- Muriel Barbery
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am , lying on a cold pavement and it is not the dying I care about; it has no more meaning this morning that it did yesterday. But never again will I see those I love, and if that is what dying is about then it really is the tragedy they say it is.
- Muriel Barbery
I am going to die, but that is of no importance.
- Muriel Barbery
Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that inspire nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
- Muriel Barbery
To die of yearning for something you will never experience
- Alessandro Baricco
Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all.
- Alessandro Baricco
It's a strange grief...to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
- Alessandro Baricco
There was little comfort, this voice inside him said, in discovering a mystery at the wellspring of his life so banal his unremarkable mind could readily fathom it. Better, perhaps, to die in doubt, knowing there was some revelation still unfound, than to pursue and possess such a wretched certainty.
- Clive Barker
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
- Barnabe Barnes
We're going to die, aren't we?" Abigail
"Hope not. I still have another episode of No Ordinary Family downloaded on my computer that I haven't had a chance to watch yet. Be a damn shame to miss it. Might have to hurt them if that happens." Sasha
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it's her time, it's her time. I'm not at war with Atropos. It's her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So eager to die are you? (Zakar)
Not particularly, but I'd rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos)
Dying's easy. It's living that's hard. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Oh, you're going to die all right. All of you. And for what you've done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably! (Kessar)
Yada, yada, yada. Am I the only one who gets sick of the bad-guy monologue? 'Ooo, I'm the big evil. I'm going to kill you all. Just wait while I bore you to tears with my egomaniacal bullshit. I'm just a demon windbag who likes to hear himself speak and I'm trying to intimidate you.' (Kat)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Not half as much as I'd miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash's shoulder.) Please don't hurt me, Ash. Please. I don't want to die while I'm still a virgin. At least let me get laid before you kill me which according to my mom I can't do until I'm married and I can't do that until I finish college. So you have to wait a good ten years before you snuff me. Deal? (Nick)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah, but I don't want to be in pain, and I definitely don't want to suffer." Nick
"Well...The only way to avoid them is to die." Death
"Okay, let's change the topic now. Oh, look! A chicken." Nick
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
His death didn't concern him. It was Sunshine he couldn't allow to die.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I prefer sidekick. I tried once for the title of Padawan, but Bubba wigged out saying that mentors are always killed off in books and movies and he'd be damned if he was going to die once he taught me everything I needed to know about killing zombies. (Mark)
Then why let you be his sidekick? Isn't that the same thing? (Nick)
Uh, no. In the movies, the sidekicks are the ones who die. (Mark)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It had been a long, brutal, and bloody fight.
Their army had broken and left the two of them alone to defend the town. Julian had expected Kyrian to abandon him as well, but the young fool had just smiled at him, grabbed a sword for each hand, and said, "It's a beautiful day to die. What say we slay as many of these bastards as we can before we pay Charon?
A complete and utter lunatic, Kyrian had always had more guts than brains.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Zarek! I won't leave you here to die. (Astrid)
It's okay, princess. I don't mind dying for you. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Okay, you're telling the truth. By the way, Nick, you have the most screwed-up life. You're either boring as all get out, or you're about to die. There's no middle ground with you. You might want to work on that.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Man, first I'm shot, now I'm going to be a friggin' zombie. At this rate, I'll never live to have my first date or a driver's license. Ah, gah! I've come too far to die a predestrian virgin. Bubba, you can't let me die...I only have seventeen more months and three days to my sixteenth birthday! (Nick)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes.
They lied.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
But on the upside, your seraph form will never age. And the only way to die is by a demon blade. As long you survive fighting them, you're immortal to the things that would kill a normal human. Think of the money you'll save on medical bills. (Jack)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You were supposed to die. It would have been a good start. (Kessar)
I don't know. I die, you get bored. World ends. Doesn't really fit, does it? Besides, I can't make things too easy on you. What's life without pain? (Sin)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn't even had his first date yet. He'd only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.' Nick
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If they can't survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron)
That's harsh, for you. (Dante)
Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven't had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. 'Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?' (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I really don't have to die?" Abigail
"Are we going to be doing this all night? Should I book us a reservation at Redundancy?" Choo Co La Tah
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
who wants to live forever?" actually, she wouldn't mind a small dose of immortality. the concept worked well for her. Fain muttered as the engines roared to life, "yeah, but no one said i wanted to die today.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- James M Barrie
To die would be an awfully big adventure -
peter Pan
- James M Barrie
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- James M Barrie
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
- Drew Barrymore
- Edward Abbey
Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.
- Mark Twain
To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadablelike Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
- Mark Twain
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Shoglig was talking shit. That old bitch didn't know when I was going to die at all. If I'd known that I'd surely have worn more armour.' Whirrun made a sound somewhere between a cough and a laugh, then winced, coughed, laughed again, winced again. 'Fuck, it hurts. I mean, you know it will, but, fuck, it really does hurt. Guess you showed me my destiny anyway, eh, Craw?
- Joe Abercrombie
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.
- Aberjhani
I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
- F Murray Abraham
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
- Dean Acheson
He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits."
"Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.
- Marta Acosta
Three Rings for Elven-Kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie
- J R R Tolkien
Three Rings for the Elvin-Kings under the Sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone,
NIne for Mortal-men doomed to die,
One for the Dark-Lord on his Dark throne,
In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie,
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all,
And in the Darkness bind them,
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
- J R R Tolkien
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
- J R R Tolkien
Three Rings for the Eleven-Kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on this dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the the Shadows lie
- J R R Tolkien
I will not debate with you Dark Elf. By the swords of the Noldor alone are your sunless woods defended. Your freedom to wander there wild you owe to my kin and but for them long since you would have laboured in thraldom in the pits of Angband. And here I am King and whether you will it or will it not my doom is law. This choice is given to you: abide here or to die here and so also for your son.
- J R R Tolkien
You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.
- Douglas Adams
I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!
- Douglas Adams
So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
"Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
"What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
"No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.
- Douglas Adams
Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!"
"Terrific," said Arthur.
"But don't you see what this means?"
"Yes. We are going to die."
"Yes, but apart from that."
"Apart from that?!"
"It means we must be on to something!"
"How soon can we get off it?
- Douglas Adams
A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.
- Joey Lauren Adams
You and I ought not to die,before we have explained ourselves to each other.
- John Adams
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
- Joseph Addison
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
- Aeschylus
There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn't notice that the heart is gone.
- Ann Aguirre
...afraid of damn near everything. But I refuse to let it paralyze me. I won't be the woman who cowers behind four walls, never taking chances. I want to die like I've lived. I always wanted to be larger than life.
- Ann Aguirre
I try to think of something helpful to say. I'm not going to die -- but I don't know that. We live in a dangerous world, and I am not so attached to life that I will do anything to survive. I can't reassure him.
- Veronica Roth
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
- Abu Hamid Al Ghazali
Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're going to die, too. This is serious. Fuck fuck fuck.
- Elisa Albert
ness-that Morrie was looking at life from some very different place than anyone else I knew. A healthier place. A more sensible place. And he was about to die.
But it was also becoming clear to me- through his courage, his humor, his patience, and his openIf some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.
- Mitch Albom
Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
- Mitch Albom
He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children.
"I do not want to die," she whispered.
"You will not die."
"I want to be with you."
"You are.
- Mitch Albom
Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
- Mitch Albom
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to diem it's also the positive that you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
- Mitch Albom
It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
- Mitch Albom
When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
- Mitch Albom
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
- Mitch Albom
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.
- Mitch Albom
Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.
- Mitch Albom
Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
- Mitch Albom
As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
- Mitch Albom
That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."
Eddie shook his head. "We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain't fair."
The Blue Man held out his hand. "Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
- Mitch Albom
it's natural to die...the fact that we make a big hullabaloo over it, is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies.
- Mitch Albom
You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.
- Mitch Albom
We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
- Mitch Albom
What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.
- Paulo Coelho
Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you know you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die.
- Paulo Coelho
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
- Paulo Coelho
But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.
- Paulo Coelho
I wake up each morning wanting to die before the day is out, but I continue to live, suffering and fighting, fighting and suffering, clinging on to that certainty that it will all end one day.
- Paulo Coelho
...to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.
- Paulo Coelho
Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
- Morrie Schwartz
As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.
- Jodi Picoult
If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
- Jodi Picoult
I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.
- Jodi Picoult
Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
- Jodi Picoult
Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.
- Jodi Picoult
The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
- Jodi Picoult
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
DENNIS, in order to die, one must first be alive."
"Quod erat demonstrandum. Oh, yes, and also: I think, therefore I am.
- Keith Caserta
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
- Louisa May Alcott
So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something.
- Louisa May Alcott
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
- Vittorio Alfieri
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
- Vittorio Alfieri
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
- Jesse Jackson
Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so--disappointed.
- Cassandra Clare
Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of it all.
- Cassandra Clare
You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement
- Cassandra Clare
Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.
- Cassandra Clare
If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want the to die of excitement.
- Cassandra Clare
Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley."
"Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.
- Cassandra Clare
If we are going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of them left, and I don't want them to die of excitement.
- Cassandra Clare
at points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we're willing to die on.
- Christa Allan
All the passengers were crowded over on the landside of the ship, watching through the narrow windows the careened hulk of a freighter, visibly damaged by shellfire, which had driven ashore to beach her cargo. She lay aground, looking against the sand in that clear water like a whale with smokestacks that had come to the beach to die.
- Ernest Hemingway
I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
- Ernest Hemingway
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
- Ernest Hemingway
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
- Ernest Hemingway
If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die one it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.
- Ernest Hemingway
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.
- Sarah Addison Allen
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
- John Ruskin
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen
I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens
- Andy Warhol
We're not going to die. You're with me kiddo and it just happens I know a few survival skills."
"Oh yeah right. Like carrying your Visa Gold in case the restaurant doesn't accept American Express.
- Janet Evanovich
I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.
- Dorothy Allison
Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die.
Mara
- Aaron Allston
I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen.
- Nicole Krauss
And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58)
- Nicole Krauss
Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die.
- David Almond
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
- Stewart Alsop
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
- Alexandre Dumas
I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.'
'Do you mean to say that if I left you---'
'I'd die, yes.'
'Then you love me?
- Alexandre Dumas
Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!
- Alexandre Dumas
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 Ambrose
Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.
- Stephen Ambrose
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
- Idi Amin
He knew now that he was going to die. But he had one last mission from Beckett. I have to finish this.
The man leaned in close, and Mouse jabbed his arm out and up, thrilled to see the speed his hand provided for his final act as Beckett's bodyguard.
All three were dead. I did it, Beckett. I saved your brother.
- Debra Anastasia
No one will hear this one, so you should be able to get out of here. I'm so sorry. I caused you the most unimaginable pain. It would be my honor to die at your hand, if it gives you even a moment's peace.
- Debra Anastasia
He kissed Kyle, checking to see that her eyes stayed sure and real. They did. Instead of saint and sinner, they were man and woman now. When Cole finally tasted her skin, the flavor was honeysuckle. Heaven was not something he had to die to enjoy. Kyle was here now.
- Debra Anastasia
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?
- Laurie Halse Anderson
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
- Kevin J Anderson
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
It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.
- Ilona Andrews
You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist.
She snarled. Heh.
- Ilona Andrews
My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.
- Hermann Hesse
Which father, which teacher, could prevent him from living his own life, from soiling himself with life, from loading himself with sin, from swallowing the bitter drink himself, from finding his own path? Do you think, my dear friend, that anybody is spared this path? Perhaps your little son, because you would like to see him spared sorrow and pain and disillusionment? But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest.
- Hermann Hesse
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
- Hermann Hesse
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
- Susan B Anthony
Hughes: (Talking for Mustang) 'I won't allow you to die under my jurisdiction because it'd be a pain to clean up the mess.' That's what he said.
Edward: Fine. Tell him, 'Understood. I'll never die before you, colonel, you @#'$ idiot.'
Hughes: Ha ha ha! They say the ruder you are, the luckier you are! In that case, you and Roy are gonna live forever!
- Hiromu Arakawa
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
- Plato
Lord, it was expensive to die
- Lisa Kleypas
Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.
- Meg Cabot
What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.
- Meg Cabot
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon
- Aristotle
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.
- Quintus Tullius Cicero
most suicidal teens are different; they're tempted to kill themselves. with me, i know i need to die; i should be killed for the things i've done. but i keep feeling this nudge, this TEMPTATION TO LIVE. and everyday i pray to god that i never lose that temptation.
- Jake Vander Ark
Yesterday I went to the doctor, to see about these dizzy spells. He told me that I have developed what used to be called a heart, as if healthy people didn't have one. It seems I will not after all keep on living forever, merely getting smaller and greyer and dustier, like Sibyl in her bottle. Having long ago whispered I want to die, I now realise that this wish will indeed be fulfilled, and sooner rather than later. No matter that I've changed my mind.
- Margaret Atwood
Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
- Margaret Atwood
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
- Thomas Carlyle
I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in.
"He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.
- Melina Marchetta
You're going to go living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take eighty years and you do something in that time, whether it's giving birth to a baby or being a housewife or a barrister or a soldier. You've accomplished something. To throw that away at such a young age, to have no hope, is the biggest tragedy.
- Melina Marchetta
They camped that night under a full moon and a sky crowded with stars that made Froi forget that there was an old man waiting to die and remember that there was a kingdom dying to live.
- Melina Marchetta
Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.
- Melina Marchetta
Balthazar pledged to die defending his royal house of Lumuatere. Finnikin swore to be their protector and guide for as long as he lived. Lucian vowed he would be the light whom they traveled toward in times of need.
- Melina Marchetta
Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.
- Melina Marchetta
In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.
- Edward St Aubyn
A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.
- W H Auden
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
- W H Auden
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
- Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
- Francis Bacon
What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born, to die?
- Francis Bacon
It is natural to die as to be born.
- Francis Bacon
Life kicks you and you begin to die, it kicks you again and you don't care anymore, it kicks you one last time and it puts hate it in your heart, the treachery of it all.
- J M August
I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.
- Julia Quinn
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
- Paul Auster
I was looking for a quiet place to die.
- Paul Auster
If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight.
- Emilie Autumn
My reasons to live
Were my reasons to die
But at least they were mine
Now I've freedom unbound
Cut the laces of life
- Emilie Autumn
We have truth in order not to die of art.
- Steve Aylett
The law is where reality goes to die.
- Steve Aylett
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
- Richard Bach
One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.
- Kelli Jae Baeli
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In some remote conner of the universe, poured out and glittering innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals inventd knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mandacious minute of the "world history" -- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die.
- Jim Baen
A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.
- Will Christopher Baer
She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
- Arthur Baer
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
- Joan Baez
We each have a story. They did this to us. There was no outside aggressor. They wanted an Apocalypse. They wanted the end. And they made it happen. It was orchestrated - who got in, who didn't. There was a master list. We weren't on it. We were left here to die. They want to erase us, the past, but we can't let them.
- Julianna Baggott
Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?"
Probably. Why?"
Just wanted confirmation.
- David Baldacci
If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.
- James Baldwin
He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
- James Baldwin
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids. I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.
- Oscar Wilde
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- Oscar Wilde
ALGERNON
Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.
LADY BRACKNELL
Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
- Oscar Wilde
Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that," Garrett said gruffly. "You'll have me convinced I'm going to die."
"You're not?
- Maya Banks
That it's possible to be against the circus, not because you're afraid to die there, but because it's wicked and wrong.
- Lynne Reid Banks
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
- William Banting
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.
- Muriel Barbery
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
- Muriel Barbery
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am , lying on a cold pavement and it is not the dying I care about; it has no more meaning this morning that it did yesterday. But never again will I see those I love, and if that is what dying is about then it really is the tragedy they say it is.
- Muriel Barbery
I am going to die, but that is of no importance.
- Muriel Barbery
Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that inspire nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
- Muriel Barbery
To die of yearning for something you will never experience
- Alessandro Baricco
Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all.
- Alessandro Baricco
It's a strange grief...to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
- Alessandro Baricco
There was little comfort, this voice inside him said, in discovering a mystery at the wellspring of his life so banal his unremarkable mind could readily fathom it. Better, perhaps, to die in doubt, knowing there was some revelation still unfound, than to pursue and possess such a wretched certainty.
- Clive Barker
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
- Barnabe Barnes
We're going to die, aren't we?" Abigail
"Hope not. I still have another episode of No Ordinary Family downloaded on my computer that I haven't had a chance to watch yet. Be a damn shame to miss it. Might have to hurt them if that happens." Sasha
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it's her time, it's her time. I'm not at war with Atropos. It's her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So eager to die are you? (Zakar)
Not particularly, but I'd rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos)
Dying's easy. It's living that's hard. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Oh, you're going to die all right. All of you. And for what you've done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably! (Kessar)
Yada, yada, yada. Am I the only one who gets sick of the bad-guy monologue? 'Ooo, I'm the big evil. I'm going to kill you all. Just wait while I bore you to tears with my egomaniacal bullshit. I'm just a demon windbag who likes to hear himself speak and I'm trying to intimidate you.' (Kat)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Not half as much as I'd miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash's shoulder.) Please don't hurt me, Ash. Please. I don't want to die while I'm still a virgin. At least let me get laid before you kill me which according to my mom I can't do until I'm married and I can't do that until I finish college. So you have to wait a good ten years before you snuff me. Deal? (Nick)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah, but I don't want to be in pain, and I definitely don't want to suffer." Nick
"Well...The only way to avoid them is to die." Death
"Okay, let's change the topic now. Oh, look! A chicken." Nick
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
His death didn't concern him. It was Sunshine he couldn't allow to die.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I prefer sidekick. I tried once for the title of Padawan, but Bubba wigged out saying that mentors are always killed off in books and movies and he'd be damned if he was going to die once he taught me everything I needed to know about killing zombies. (Mark)
Then why let you be his sidekick? Isn't that the same thing? (Nick)
Uh, no. In the movies, the sidekicks are the ones who die. (Mark)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It had been a long, brutal, and bloody fight.
Their army had broken and left the two of them alone to defend the town. Julian had expected Kyrian to abandon him as well, but the young fool had just smiled at him, grabbed a sword for each hand, and said, "It's a beautiful day to die. What say we slay as many of these bastards as we can before we pay Charon?
A complete and utter lunatic, Kyrian had always had more guts than brains.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Zarek! I won't leave you here to die. (Astrid)
It's okay, princess. I don't mind dying for you. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Okay, you're telling the truth. By the way, Nick, you have the most screwed-up life. You're either boring as all get out, or you're about to die. There's no middle ground with you. You might want to work on that.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Man, first I'm shot, now I'm going to be a friggin' zombie. At this rate, I'll never live to have my first date or a driver's license. Ah, gah! I've come too far to die a predestrian virgin. Bubba, you can't let me die...I only have seventeen more months and three days to my sixteenth birthday! (Nick)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes.
They lied.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
But on the upside, your seraph form will never age. And the only way to die is by a demon blade. As long you survive fighting them, you're immortal to the things that would kill a normal human. Think of the money you'll save on medical bills. (Jack)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You were supposed to die. It would have been a good start. (Kessar)
I don't know. I die, you get bored. World ends. Doesn't really fit, does it? Besides, I can't make things too easy on you. What's life without pain? (Sin)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn't even had his first date yet. He'd only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.' Nick
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If they can't survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron)
That's harsh, for you. (Dante)
Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven't had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. 'Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?' (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I really don't have to die?" Abigail
"Are we going to be doing this all night? Should I book us a reservation at Redundancy?" Choo Co La Tah
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
who wants to live forever?" actually, she wouldn't mind a small dose of immortality. the concept worked well for her. Fain muttered as the engines roared to life, "yeah, but no one said i wanted to die today.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- James M Barrie
To die would be an awfully big adventure -
peter Pan
- James M Barrie
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- James M Barrie
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
- Drew Barrymore
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