Die Slowly Quotes

#1. First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer

Joseph Heller

#2. I want him to suffer. I've put up with him for three years and I want him to die slowly. Rip his fingernails off. Cut out his tongue. Fuck him with his own dick.

Dawn Cano

#3. Die slowly, Tom.

S.J. Kincaid

#4. Take one vial of my blood and I will not die.
But if you continue taking it, one vial at a time ...
slowly ... I will die, slowly. But make no mistake. I will die.
It is the same with my rights.

Jose N. Harris

#5. Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

Roger Rosenblatt

#6. So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

Ahdaf Soueif

#7. Die Slowly' by Pablo Neruda:
He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.

Pablo Neruda

#8. Keep your southern fried bullshit to yourself. And know this, Charlie is the sweetest girl I've ever met and if you hurt her, or infect her with some kind of disease, you will die. Slowly.

Eve Dangerfield

#9. He had found it hard to equate the priest's God with the one who had left his mother to die slowly and painfully.

John Connolly

#10. As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age
suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.

Mahlon Hoagland

#11. I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

Anthony Hopkins

#12. There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

Charles Baudelaire

#13. Never Flinch.' A cold whisper in her ear. 'Never fear. And never, ever forget.'
The girl nodded slowly.
Exhaled the hope inside.
And she'd watched her father die.

Jay Kristoff

#14. He shouldn't have had to die."
"Nobody should have to die," Miriamele said slowly. "Especially while they're still alive.

Tad Williams

#15. If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don't give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)

Swami Satchidananda

#16. Ah realise now thit death is usually a process, rather than an
event. People generally die by degrees, incrementally. They rot away slowly in homes and hoespitals,
or places like this.

Irvine Welsh

#17. I'm sorry. Was that gross?" I asked, wanting to melt into the floor and just die. He shook his head slowly and then looked at me for a second. "I'd like to try this after you've brushed your teeth.

Amber L. Johnson

#18. Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#19. I breathe in sharply, and then I breathe out slowly. Life is just a series of breaths in and out. All I really have to do in this world is breathe in and then breathe out, in succession, until I die. I can do that. I can breathe in and out.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#20. I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history

Francis George

#21. Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other carcasses strewn across the wasteland of my soul.

Allie Brosh

#22. Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

Michael Merzenich

#23. FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

Hazel Hawke

#24. We live by encouragement and die without it
slowly, sadly, and angrily.

Celeste Holm

#25. I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.

Andrew Mason

#26. There are different ways to die. There's jumping off a roof and there's slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.

Jennifer Niven

#27. I love you, Olivia," he whispered, and my heart ached as if it would break in half. "You think we'll die if we stay together, but I've been dying slowly for the last six years. I'm taking my life back, Liv. Our life together. And this time, I'm not going to let you go.

Rachel Vincent

#28. Hope does not die like an animal--quick and sudden. It is more like a plant, which slowly withers away.

Jamil Ahmad

#29. After the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.

Irene Nemirovsky

#30. No one would speak, so Terence took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and said, "My liege?"
"Yes, Terence?"
"Twenty years ago I decided I would die for you. I may not be able to do that tomorrow, but if I can't, I can at least die beside you.

Gerald Morris

#31. Boy," said Anastasia, "you know what I wish? I wish that everybody who loved each other would die at exactly the same time. Then nobody would ever have to miss anyone."

"Well," said her father slowly, "it just doesn't work that way. It just doesn't seem to work that way very often.

Lois Lowry

#32. I admired Stalkers style. He was incredibly fast using two small blades strapped to the backs of his hands. Slash slash slash. Fighting him you wouldn't die of one great wound but instead bleed out slowly surprised to find yourself weak and dying after a thousand cuts.

Ann Aguirre

#33. My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

Hermann Hesse

#34. We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.

Simon Tugwell

#35. Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

E. O. Wilson

#36. It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.

Mike Nichols

#37. Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Douglas MacArthur

#38. How do you let magic die?" I said slowly. I didn't know why, but I felt a great sense of loss at this. "By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing, Vega.

David Baldacci

#39. You were impaled? (Delphine) You know the worst part about impalement? You don't die immediately. You hang on bleeding and aching as the spike works its way slowly through your body until it pierces some major organ. Pray to the gods you worship that you never know what that feels like. (Jericho)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#40. It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.

Dan Hill

#41. The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

Anne Rice

#42. If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.

Nhat Hanh

#43. I hate beds," she said slowly. "They stand there night after night waiting for you to die in them. It's like lying in a tomb.

Susan Kay

#44. Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or ... "
"Or we'll die?" I guessed.
"Well ... after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes."
"Let's avoid the swords," I decided.

Rick Riordan

#45. But I got this far, didn't I?" he said slowly. "They thought I'd die in the attempt, but I'm here ... and you're in my power ... I'm the one with the wand ... you're at my mercy ...

J.K. Rowling

#46. It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

Jim Harrison

#47. Fantasies die slow, quiet deaths. They're like cherry blossoms breaking away and sailing down slowly, still holding onto their color and their softness and beauty, but ending up on the ground to be blown out by cold winds.

V.C. Andrews

#48. It was the eternal conundrum. Time passed too slowly, and then it was over too quickly. Hurry up and die.

Leslie Meier

#49. To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.

John Austin Baker

#50. Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.

Gena Showalter

#51. I would rather live a short life out there and be free, than slowly die here and be safe.

Jared Southwick

#52. Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.

Suzanne Collins

#53. People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

Polly Toynbee

#54. Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.

Reed Hastings

#55. Time. She had to go home. As soon as the lunar eclipse occurred in three weeks. Because if she stayed here, she would die. Either from the bullet in her back, or from the pain that was slowly sinking talons into her.

Shelly Thacker

#56. You can fix it as soon as you get up - you brush and use mouthwash - but there's something about knowing you woke up with hot-mothball mouth that makes you feel old. I think God designed our mouths to die first to help us slowly transition to the grave.

Tina Fey

#57. As I go, I hear her screaming my name, in a brutal, bloody way, like she's being murdered, which maybe she is. But slowly. It will take her six years to die.

Lauren DeStefano

#58. With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing.

Dave Franco

#59. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Maya Angelou

#60. We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

Umberto Eco

#61. Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

Peter Cundall

#62. This is the way brown people have to fight, my grandfather says. You can't just put your fist up. You have to insist on something gently. Walk toward a thing slowly. But be ready to die, my grandfather says, for what is right. Be ready to die, my grandfather says, for everything you believe in.

Jacqueline Woodson

#63. Eliza sitting naked on a pink towel. So beautiful I could die.

Concentrating, all focused in on her sketchbook, but aw, god ...her tail.

Her cute little tail moving slowly back and forth, making a fan shape in the dirt.

She's the one. She really is. I know that now.

Charles Burns

#64. Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.

Blythe Baird