Top 100 Die Well Quotes
#2. Did he die well?
No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.
Ann Aguirre
#3. If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.
Mary Jo Putney
#4. It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)
Victoria Moran
#5. Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down
Bob Dylan
#6. I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me how to die well and live well.
Michel De Montaigne
#7. Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
Seneca The Younger
#8. What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.
Nalini Singh
#10. Yet, fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well, and not my master's debtor.
William Shakespeare
#11. Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death
what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
Sophocles
#12. He will live ill who does not know how to die well
Seneca.
#13. We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#14. It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.
Francis Quarles
#15. I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.
Michel De Montaigne
#16. One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well.
Jessica Bates
#17. One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
Jose Rizal
#18. How long have you been with Raphael?" "You ask a lot of questions for a dead woman." "What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed." -Venom and Elena
Nalini Singh
#19. Why would you help us? (Delphine) I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that's true or not. If I survive, we'll know it's not. If I die ... well, it'll suck. Bad. And I won't be happy. (Asmodeus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
Edward Abbey
#21. Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.
Michael Horton
#22. Bouquet list. You've heard of the Jack Nicholson movie, right? The Bucket List? Two old guys who make a list of everything they want to do before they die. Well, when I was starting to recover, I wrote a list of the things I want to do now that I know I'm not going to die - my bouquet list.
Barbara DeLeo
#23. Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.
Tom Cruise
#24. Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
Miguel De Unamuno
#25. Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that's it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done
H.G.Wells
#26. I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?
William Shakespeare
#27. Instead there is a sense that life and death are connected, and that because the way you live is going to affect the way you die, the point of philosophy is to learn to die well.
Bri
#28. It is better to die well than to live badly.
Jan Hus
#29. There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
Oscar Wilde
#30. Like many silly codes of bravery and manliness, the meat of my father's instruction on how to die well can be distilled to a simple slogan: Die angry at maximum volume. (Dying silently is out of the question; the world's last Druid should not go gentle into that good night.) During
Kevin Hearne
#31. He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?"
"He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa.
"What a beautiful thing to hear.
Cassandra Clare
#32. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
Haruki Murakami
#33. Things die, too, you know. And so, if they too have to die, well there it is, it is so much better to let them go
Giorgio Bassani
#34. From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well ...
Michel De Montaigne
#35. Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.
Bell Hooks
#36. Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late.
J. Tonzelli
#37. Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul's life. It should be the meaning of ours. And Paul prays it will be the meaning of his death as well. We live and we die to make much of Christ.
John Piper
#38. 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
#39. Your life, unfortunately - and I mean this - your life is built on when love dies. There's a lot of love in your life that will simply die. And you wish that you died with it, you know? But you don't. And you go, oh, well, here I am.
Wayne Coyne
#40. Well, that concept is critical to the "Mark Watney doesn't die" project
Andy Weir
#41. I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!
Jonathan Davis
#42. We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.
Karen Traviss
#43. But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
Anthony Trollope
#44. Zsadist: I didn't make up the rules of this scenario
Wrath: You'll die if you go by yourself.
Zsadist: Well ... I'm kind of ready to get off the ride.
Phury felt his skin get tight all over.
J.R. Ward
#46. Santa can't die, he punish bad people. Behave well and you won't punished!
Deyth Banger
#47. But I'm gonna make sure when you leave here, you'll know three things very well. How to think. How to not die. And how to live." For
Lucian Bane
#48. When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.
Rick Majerus
#49. When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity.
Howard Schultz
#50. Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
#51. The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating.
Jim Harrison
#52. If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.
Oswald Chambers
#53. I felt today when the night melted away into a flowering bush and the wind smelled of strawberries and without love one is only a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it and one might as well die
Erich Maria Remarque
#55. Myrnin to Claire: If anyone comes to bite you while I'm gone - well, try not to attract attention. Die quietly.
Rachel Caine
#56. If I can only live to see the American union firmly fixed, and free governments well established in our western world, and can leave to my children but a crust of bread and liberty, I shall die satisfied.
George Mason
#57. In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are-joy, tenderness, success beauty-but some bad things happen as well. Sometimes, very bad things happen. Children sicken and die. People we love don't love us, can never love us.
Robert Goolrick
#58. People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.
George Burns
#59. I don't want a well-ordered life ... I would die from boredom in a fortnight.
Suzanne Enoch
#60. My father said this to me: Israelmore, if you don't make any impact on earth, you will die before you die. But if you impress hearts with what you do, you still live even after you are gone
Israelmore Ayivor
#61. She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell."
He smiled wanly at her. "Indeed.
Erin Kellison
#62. I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.
Tom Ford
#63. She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.
Gabrielle Zevin
#64. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.
Johnny Damon
#66. Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.
Claude Bernard
#67. I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and pretend it is dung. They wash off in the square and the well becomes polluted. All die. O the embarrassment.
Joe Haldeman
#68. You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
Katherine Paterson
#69. Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.
W. H. Auden
#70. He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
John Clare
#71. We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness
Jose Saramago
#72. When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad
well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.
Judy Garland
#73. Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?
Wyndham Lewis
#74. I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.
Brad Pitt
#75. Living a life that in fact lives them, as well as death dies them every moment since the triumphal birth in order to die.
Sorin Cerin
#76. If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.
Marilyn Manson
#77. To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living.
Sunday Adelaja
#78. You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said.
Yeah, Eugens said shakily. ' ... Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.
Mercedes Lackey
#79. There are feelings which want to kill the lonely; and if they do not succeed, well, then they themselves must die. But are you capable of this - to be a murderer?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. Too many people die in our world today because, they don't eat well, rest well, play well and live well.
Sunday Adelaja
#81. There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
David McCullough
#82. We are bonded now. We will face it together. Your destiny is mine as well. We shall live or die together.
Melissa De La Cruz
#83. The yellow star?
Oh well, what of it?
You dont die of it.
Elie Wiesel
#84. Not every dream grows on every land, so you got to watch out! "Sugar cane" dreams should find the environment where there is flooding of great ideas from great people. It will die off if it is planted at the place where the drought of discouragement is a well cherished culture!
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. Well, I guess life's a bitch and then you die
-Totally Captivated
Yoo Ha Jin
#86. Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us: and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
John Locke
#87. Hey, moose! I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we'll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought.
Rick Riordan
#88. I'll follow thee and make a heaven out of hell, To die by your hand which I love so well." - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Maegan Abel
#90. Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing deconstructing I'm going to start building ... What matters is what you are doing when you die ... I want to be building.
Muriel Barbery
#91. Without wonder, there's no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don't exercise your capacity for wonder ... well, use it or lose it. A civilization without wonder is a civilization that's starting to atrophy and die.
Brian Hodge
#92. Staring at the plaster death figures in the museum window, she wondered what they had been thinking as they curled up to die in the ashes. Probably not: Well, we're Romans! We shouldn't complain!
Rick Riordan
#93. Well, I don't want you to die," Tessa said. "I don't know why I feel it so strongly
I've just met you
but I don't want you to die."
"And I trust you," he said. "I don't know why
I've just met you
but I do.
Cassandra Clare
#94. To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy
Bruce McLaren
#95. Disrespectful! My grandmothers are both dead."
"Well, Jesus. What did they die of?"
"Mom always said 'meddling.
Maggie Stiefvater
#98. Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field, You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius! Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex: We cannot fight for love, as men ay do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.
William Shakespeare
#99. Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
Tryon Edwards
#100. And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
Paul Auster
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