Dying Quotes (page 134)

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• bad
• jokes
• personality

Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person. Jodi Picoult

• college life
• him
• thoughts

He had just graduated from college...and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was the question in his mind. He did not think of dying. He thought only that he wished to find joy and reason and meaning in life-and that none had been offered to him anywhere. Ayn Rand

• mother
• die
• smile

Why do you want to die?' I shivered. For a second I couldn't breathe. 'You knew...?' She gave a sad smile. 'I'm your mother. Mitch Albom

• mind
• broken heart
• die

the other guineahen died of a broken heart and we came to New York. I used to sit at a table, drawing wings with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept remembering how your mind looked when it slept for several years, to wake up asking why. So then you turned into a photograph of somebody who’s trying not to laugh at somebody who’s trying not to cry E. E. Cummings

• responsibility
• die
• old

...the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves. Salman Rushdie

• die
• grandmother
• illness

It's a little bit like what Akari said to his grandmother in Shikoku, during her final illness: 'Please cheer up and die! Kenzaburo Oe

• love
• die
• face

Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die. Chuck Palahniuk

• die
• wonder
• wonderful

He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born. Mitch Albom

• die
• old
• growing old

Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with mygeneration, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten. H. Rider Haggard

• life
• eyes
• die

It was possible to close your eyes and exit life without actually dying. You just had to faint. Sue Monk Kidd

• reading
• die
• manly

A READER lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. George R. R. Martin

• die
• desirability
• desiring

He begins to die, that quits his desires. George Herbert

• she
• die
• evil

She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive. Alice Walker

• worship
• die
• beautiful

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. David Foster Wallace

• good
• manly
• nature

The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail. Call no man happy till he dies, there's no milk at the bottom of the pail. God builds a church and the devil builds a chapel, like the thistles that are growing 'round the trunk of a tree. All the good in the world you could put inside a thimble, and still have room for you and me. If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man. You can drive out nature with a pitchfork, but it always coming... Tom Waits