Dying Quotes (page 113)

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• cold
• old
• star

I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old. William Shakespeare

• angel
• die
• los angeles

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles. Truman Capote

• death
• giving
• choices

Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath, I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge, All here who died without a voice. Suzanne Collins

• die
• lies
• eyes

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown. Paul Newman

• death
• die
• end

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. Haruki Murakami

• warrior
• die
• huge

Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die. Homer

• enough
• drinking
• old

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink. Kinky Friedman

• great
• to live
• die

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly? Katharine Hepburn

• humanity
• illness
• future

R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured). John Sladek

• nature
• freedom
• giving

Give me my freedom for as long as I be. All I ask of living is to have no chains on me. All I ask of living is to have no chains on me, And all I ask of dying is to go naturally. Laura Nyro

• mother
• boys
• die

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. Joanna Russ

• die
• equality
• brain

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen Jay Gould

• happy
• hot
• manly

After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die. Anton Chekhov

• die
• poetry
• music

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator. John Piper

• forgiveness
• waiting
• drinking

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. Anne Lamott