Dying Quotes (page 55)

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• die
• powerful
• decision

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it? - Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic) John Byrne

• mind
• skin
• snake

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. Friedrich Nietzsche

• die
• going
• fails

I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself. Margaret Cho

• him
• balance
• faith

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible) Abraham Lincoln

• flower
• summer
• die

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet. Though to itself it only live and die William Shakespeare

• die
• drawing
• photograph

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies John Fowles

• sleep
• die
• bed

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. Erma Bombeck

• wonderful
• hurt
• die

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die. Emily Dickinson

• nature
• death
• die

Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal. John Fowles

• she
• die
• joy

Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat dmon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in... Philip Pullman

• die
• go
• reason

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. Neil Gaiman

• hell
• sunday
• dead

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. J. D. Salinger

• fruit
• disappointment
• life

But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours,... Paulo Coelho

• die
• causes
• killing

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for. Albert Camus

• intellectual
• growth
• light

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light. Victor Hugo