Dying Quotes (page 47)

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• gold
• memorial
• little

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• space
• die
• mourning

On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving... Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• art
• die
• manly

Art and revolt will die only with the last man. Albert Camus

• men
• thinking
• giving

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after all the cape work when the bull tries to kill something that isn't there? Remember how he gets confused and uneasy, sometimes just stands and looks for an answer? Well, then they have to give him a horse or his heart will break. He has to get his horns into something solid or his spirit dies. Well, I'm that horse. And that's the kind of men I get, confused and... John Steinbeck

• life
• him
• die

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives. Henry David Thoreau

• die
• lively
• justly

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion. Chuck Palahniuk

• savage
• betrayal
• honey

Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins;... Tom Robbins

• good
• running
• die

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. Ray Bradbury

• life
• greatness
• running

Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong to a category of people who would have resisted Hitler when he came to power. So the great shame is, clearly film critics should have been running Austria at the time, because Hitler would have represented no problem to them at all. [The Guardian's] Peter Bradshaw would have known exactly what to do, and he would not have been remotely fallible to any Nazi who threatened his life. No, he would have died in heroic... David Hare

• moments
• die
• moment

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes. Philip Larkin

• free
• die
• sinned

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free. Martin Luther

• grandma
• die
• know

Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps. Janet Evanovich

• die
• house
• planned

Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it. Alice Hoffman

• die
• bungee
• myself

Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying. Steven Wright

• beauty
• compassion
• die

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom,... Goldie Hawn