Top 100 Dies Quotes
#1. The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
Hippolyte Taine
#2. People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.
Haruki Murakami
#4. In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
E.B. White
#5. Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Julia Cameron
#6. When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
Ana Castillo
#8. The old men know when an old man dies.
Ogden Nash
#9. The grief changes over time. You keep busy. Sometimes your mind even forgets the pain for a little while. But when someone you love dies, there will always be a hurt inside you, like a splinter, and when you give yourself over to thinking on it, the ache comes back.
Colleen Houck
#11. Faith ... must be enforced by reason ... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#13. Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
Bill Vaughan
#14. Will be there any spinoff?
A lesson?
Person of Interest have a lessons... first we all die alone as a second when you start understanding the somebody... it comes a moment when the cards end up and he dies.
Deyth Banger
#15. A novelist must wrestle with all mysteries and strangeness of life itself, and anyone who dies not wish to accept that grand, bone-chilling commission should write book reviews, editorials, or health-insurance policies instead.
Pat Conroy
#16. If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two, three years old, how to look for the way, the signs of the path, the landmarks, then it gets lost in the mountain, doesn't it? And dies in the night, in the cold.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#17. Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down.
Dave Barry
#18. Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.
Anthony Of Padua
#19. BEL-IMPERIA: Oh let me go; for in my troubled eyes
Now may'st thou read that life in passion dies.
HORATIO: Oh stay a while, and I will die with thee;
So shalt thou yield, and yet have conquered me.
Thomas Kyd
#20. Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.
Edmund Waller
#21. Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.
Mark Plotkin
#22. Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
E. M. Forster
#23. From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.
Selman Waksman
#25. Nothingness is staring you in the face. Utter and permanent oblivion. You will cease to be. To be, Jack. The dier accepts this and dies. The killer, in theory, attempts to defeat his own death by killing others. He buys time, he buys life. - Murray (WN 291)
Don DeLillo
#26. The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial - the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
Ken Liu
#27. They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.
Bonnie Tyler
#28. Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.
Suzanne Collins
#29. When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
Andrew Buchan
#30. And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
William Shakespeare
#31. I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits.
Billy Collins
#32. Their mother died early, and not in a good way. Not that anyone dies in a good way, Tin footnotes to himself, but there are degrees. Being hit by a truck after closing time while jaywalking blinded with mournful tears was not a good way. Though it was quick.
Margaret Atwood
#33. That childhood said to have been mine the difficulty of believing in it the feeling rather of having been born octogenarian at the age when one dies in the dark
Samuel Beckett
#34. When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies.
Karen Marie Moning
#35. I take it hard when an animal in my care suffers or dies. I take it even harder when the animal's suffering is the result of human exploitation or carelessness.
Linda Bender
#36. The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#37. When your dream dies, create another dream; don't waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don't stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.
Frederick Lenz
#39. The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
Emil Cioran
#40. The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#41. In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.
John Fusco
#44. Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?
Jasper Johns
#45. Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
Brandon Lee
#46. I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an erection, a body or an orgasm for sex?
Hanif Kureishi
#47. No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
Michel De Montaigne
#48. It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.
Robert Baden-Powell
#49. A Christianity that is walled off from the culture around it is a Christianity that dies. The
Russell D. Moore
#50. The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all - he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.
Charles Farrar Browne
#53. Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.
Carl Sagan
#54. Well, Greg, I think that it just means that even after somebody dies, you can... you can still keep learning about them, you know, their life. It can keep unfolding itself to you just as long... just as long as you pay attention to it.
Jesse Andrews
#55. It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
Farrah Fawcett
#56. Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.
Lurlene McDaniel
#57. Love never dies. Love will continue. Love keeps on beating when you're gone. Love never dies once it is in you. Life may be fleeting; love lives on! Life may be fleeting! Love lives on...
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#58. She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.
John Green
#59. There are lots of love stories here ... They either end happily or everyone dies.
Lauren DeStefano
#61. The past never truly dies. It is there, waiting, just below the surface of the now.
John Connolly
#62. If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
Oprah Winfrey
#63. We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.
A. N. Wilson
#64. To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.
C.S. Lewis
#65. I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
Dagmara Dominczyk
#67. He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.
Baruch Spinoza
#68. Anyone young, famous and beautiful who dies young is forever frozen in time and fascinating to all of us.
Deb Stratas
#71. We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
George Eliot
#72. When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.
Mariella Frostrup
#73. When honor dies - when trust is a useless thing - what use is life?
Diane Duane
#74. A city lives or dies on its myths," Cleaves said tapping the side of his nose and
European P. Douglas
#76. A man's supposed to shit himself after he dies, son, not before.
Kevin Hearne
#77. The only real death that ever occurs is when a dream we cherish dies
P.M.H. Atwater
#79. No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.
Diana Gabaldon
#80. Everything you touch surely dies.
Passenger
#81. Live when you live! Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life! If one does not live in the right time, then one can never die at the right time.
Irvin D. Yalom
#82. The king eats, Robert had said, and the Hand takes the shit. How he had laughed. Yet he had gotten it wrong. The king dies, Ned Stark thought, and the Hand is buried.
George R R Martin
#84. The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
Robert Burns
#85. An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'.
Kim Ki-duk
#86. It's like watching some rare exotic butterfly. Pleasant to watch, but you can't touch it, for as soon as you do, it dies, it's brilliance gone.
Haruki Murakami
#87. Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal
#88. If you cut a shrub back because it's just too big, and it dies, you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your rules.
Janet Macunovich
#89. Life is more than just chess.
Though king dies, life goes on.
Toba Beta
#90. Dad, would the love end just because a person dies?
Park Soo Jin
#91. Love dies in different ways. For most, it is a slow, agonizing death. Meche, however, cut her love the same way the executioner might chop a head: with a single, accurate swing.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
#92. The bigger the star, the quicker it dies.
Lindy Zart
#93. No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
Yann Martel
#94. Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
Ouida
#95. Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.
Benjamin Rush
#96. If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies
mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies. His voice was choked in his throat.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#97. But if the Nevernever dies, won't you disappear, as well?"
"I am a cat," Grimalkin replied, as if that explained anything.
Julie Kagawa
#98. The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.
Laozi
#99. Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield
#100. The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.
Janet Fitch
