Died Quotes (page 91)

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• star
• moments
• die

Stars have their moments then they die. Nick Cave

• die
• life
• philosophy

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't. Chuck Palahniuk

• die
• motivational
• home

When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity. Howard Schultz

• strong
• past
• die

I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we kill it. Henri Barbusse

• girl
• little girl
• die

An old man dies, a little girl lives. Fair trade. Frank Miller

• die
• death
• peace

Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• die
• beyond
• meanings

I am dying beyond my means Oscar Wilde

• hope
• men
• work

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Daniel Burnham

• die
• hand
• handed

... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.... J. K. Rowling

• wellness
• time
• hope

When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well, I have God, and His Word is true. Though the superstitions of the heathen were a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on the sure Word, would rise above all obstructions and overcome every trial. God's cause will triumph.... William Carey

• die
• little
• self

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died. Philip Pullman

• biology
• death
• philosophical

What happens when an animal or person dies? Something seems to have departed--something like a vital spark that makes the difference between life and death. In the nineteenth century, philosophers believed that there really was such a thing and called it the lan vital, or vital spirit. But when twentieth century science began to unravel the mysteries of how living things work and reproduce, the idea was abandoned and people now accept that there is nothing more to being alive than complex,... Susan Blackmore

• time
• empty
• remember me

Flying to Monterey I had a sharp apprehension of the many times before when I had, like Lincoln Steffens, "come back," flown west, followed the sun, each time experiencing a lightening of spirit as the land below opened up, the checkerboards of the midwestern plains giving way to the vast empty reach between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada; then home, there, where I was from, me, California. It would be a while before I realized that “me” is what we think when our parents die, even at my... Joan Didion

• to live
• die
• want

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? Tennessee Williams

• wonderful
• die
• running

'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I told him, wondering if he knew it was all over. 'We keep running till we die. We separate, get further apart, till we are dead. Sylvia Plath