Died Quotes (page 65)

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• amazing love
• people
• top

I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. "Lie down, lie down!" the people cried. "The great machine is history!" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so. Kurt Vonnegut

• die
• dying
• borne

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery. Huston Smith

• happy
• die
• wellness

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy. Charles Dickens

• die
• betterment
• populism

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Charles Dickens

• men
• evening
• world

The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. Cormac McCarthy

• life
• struggle
• die

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life. Art Spiegelman

• blessed
• real
• words

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground. Cormac McCarthy

• traitor
• die
• courage

I am not one of your repentant sinners, Kenneth. I have lived my life—God, what a life!—and as I have lived I shall die, unflinching and unchanged. Dare one to presume that a few hours spent in whining prayers shall atone for years of reckless dissoluteness? 'Tis a doctrine of cravens, who, having lacked in life the strength to live as conscience bade them, lack in death the courage to stand by that life's deeds. I am no such traitor to myself. Rafael Sabatini

• wall
• die
• top

Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. Douglas Adams

• believe
• die
• wills

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. Bertrand Russell

• die
• understanding
• fear

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me. H. G. Wells

• time
• die
• lets

When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived. Henry David Thoreau

• die
• purpose
• ghost

She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• art
• meditation
• die

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. Umberto Eco

• pride
• blue
• die

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/You will not die, its not poison-Tombstone Blues Bob Dylan