Died Quotes (page 89)

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• morning
• night
• sleep

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. Mahatma Gandhi

• business
• wonderful
• die

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die. Yasunari Kawabata

• writing
• to live
• die

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. Carlos Fuentes

• feeling
• him
• die

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief. Stendhal

• doubt
• life death
• leaving

And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. Walt Whitman

• die
• patiently
• patients

Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse. Louis de Bernieres

• men
• society
• house

We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone. We should therefore act as if we were alone, and in that case should we build fine houses, etc.? We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth. Blaise Pascal

• father
• dream
• personal

From Alan Lightman's intricate 1993 novel Einstein's Dreams; set in Berne in 1905:With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great-grandparents, great-aunts...and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own...Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Christopher Hitchens

• die
• funeral
• dying

When I die. I'm sure. I will have a. Big Funeral. Curiosityseekers... coming to seeif Iam really. Deador justtrying to make. Trouble. Mari Evans

• look
• bright
• bright side

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

• caring
• poetry
• die

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely. Charles Bukowski

• cool
• die
• white

Julie wanted to die of his own whiteness, to be drowned in the tide of his embarrassment on behalf of all uncool white people everywhere when they tried to be cool. Michael Chabon

• home
• leaving
• die

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to. John Irving

• determination
• words
• old

my beloved Eudosia [a member of Buckley's household staff], who is Cuban, very large, quite old, and altogether superstitious, and speaks only a word or two of English (even though she has been with us for 19 years), is quite certain that the gentleman who raped the 16-year-old girl in New Caanan three years ago and escaped has successfully eluded the police only because of his resourceful determination to ravage Eudosia before he dies. Accordingly she demanded, and I gave her, a shotgun,... William F. Buckley, Jr.

• love
• love her
• daughter

Half of them loved her like a daughter, and other half wanted to spread her legs, but either sort would die for her. George R. R. Martin