Top 100 How To Die Quotes
#1. Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure past: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?
Paul Negri
#3. Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
Nawal El Saadawi
#4. The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!
Francis Quarles
#5. When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It's scientific. That's how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.
Neil Gaiman
#6. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea, but for now we are young, let us lay in the sun, and count every beautiful thing we can see ... Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.
Jeff Mangum
#7. It doesn't matter how cruel a person is, they didn't deserve to die in that way.
Khali Raymond
#8. If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian
#9. The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
Michel De Montaigne
#10. To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
David Foster Wallace
#11. How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
Stephen Levine
#12. You can't!" Aaron said. "Didn't you hear anything I just told you? You could die!
" Well, don't kill me," Call said. "How about our goal is not to die. Both of us. Not dying. Together.
Holly Black
#13. When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.
Albert Camus
#15. And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.
Phil Ochs
#16. The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die ... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
Yuichiro Miura
#18. True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#19. My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die.
Peter Carey
#20. To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
Tom Robbins
#21. The very old do not succomb to disease-they implode their way into eternity. (How We Die)
Sherwin B. Nuland
#22. The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.
Richard Rohr
#23. I'd never given much too thought to how I would die- though I'd had reason enough in the last few months- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.
Stephenie Meyer
#24. Now that you will leave, now that the day of payment
dawns, now that no one knows
who he will kill and how he will die
take with you the boy who saw the light
under the leaves of that plane tree
and teach him how to study the trees.
Giorgos Seferis
#25. How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.
Beth Revis
#26. I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me.
Tonny K. Brown
#27. It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.
Lauren Oliver
#28. Life is what you do while you're waiting to die ... Life is how the time goes by
Fred Ebb
#29. You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
Thomas Harris
#30. We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#31. If I'm to die a mortal, why shouldn't the same fate be given to all, no matter how long they've lived or how important they think they are? All things must eventually come to an end.
Morgan Rhodes
#32. He had never expected a title, never expected lands of his own or a household to go with them. His father had been a younger son of a younger son; God only knew how many Dunfords had had to die to put him in line for this inheritance.
Julia Quinn
#33. Pay attention to the road, Sensei. I know how you prefer to look at me while I'm blowing you, but I don't want to die choking on your dick after you wreck your fancy car.
Lorelei James
#34. You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.
Alistair Begg
#35. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.
Ronald C. White Jr.
#36. God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before.
How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them? All that romance about snow and seasons ... You shouldn't have to make a special effort not to die every time you left your house.
Rainbow Rowell
#37. Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.
She felt no pain.
She saw no light.
She heard, but barely.
Her heart was still and silent.
Yet she did not die.
Michael Grant
#38. Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.
J.I. Packer
#40. I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.
Beth Gibbons
#41. Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.
Sebastian Junger
#42. It's like, God, I'm in my 80s. Nobody, when I die, is going to say, 'How young?' They're going to say she had a great ride.
Joan Rivers
#43. I had no clue what I was going to do with a male, or how to do it, but I knew I was going to do it right goddamn now or die trying.
Eli Easton
#44. The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.
Anne Sexton
#45. Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?
George Wither
#46. How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?
Rachel Vincent
#47. I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
Mickey Mantle
#48. We don't get to choose how we're born, Miranda, and very rarely how we die; but we get to choose how we live. Life is too short to spend in dread and guilt.
Dianne Sylvan
#49. Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [ ... ]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.
Nancy Farmer
#50. Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
Morrie Schwartz.
#51. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry Pratchett
#52. No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.
B.F. Skinner
#53. One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.
Justin Cronin
#54. We all have to die, Johnrock - every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it's the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.
Terry Goodkind
#55. I couldn't quite believe how much I seriously loved Aled Last, even if it wasn't in the ideal way that would make it socially acceptable for us to live together until we die.
Alice Oseman
#56. It's so pathetic, the tough-guy posturing, but so sinister, because, to put it plainly, that's how black men die. Insecure, pee-pants white men assume that any disagreement is a life-threatening situation.
Lindy West
#57. And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.
George Orwell
#58. 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
#59. How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.
Juliet Marillier
#60. how these words, wait to die
in the arms of all the poetry..
yet to be written.
Sanober Khan
#61. If it seems like he's going to die she'll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. So
Daniel Wallace
#62. I wanted to let my conscience go, and see how deep I fall.
I wanted to let the devil take over, and see if I survive.
I love you, Mriga. And for you, I will die.
Tonight.
Prashant Chopra
#63. I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.
Bonnie Bedelia
#64. How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and couldn't die no matter how hard they tried.
Dalton Trumbo
#65. I just want to die knowing that I've made a difference in the world... or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference.
Eloise Dyson
#66. How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred?
William Hague
#67. Charitably ... I think ... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.
Neil Gaiman
#68. A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pitty in all the glittering multitude.
Charles Dickens
#69. Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.
Dinah
#70. There is no greatness in dying for love, Raakha, she wanted to say. Those who die untimely, violent deaths don't become ashes. They become guilty scars on the flesh of the living. They become wounds that never heal no matter how much time passes.
Manjul Bajaj
#71. The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Mitch Albom
#72. I love my country. But how many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?
Cindy Sheehan
#73. People die, sure," my mother was saying. "But it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.
Donna Tartt
#74. He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know ... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.
Mira Grant
#75. We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.
Bill Bright
#76. How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
John F. Kerry
#77. Her shortsightedness had almost brought the entire multiverse to oblivion. That Admiral Janeway had chosen to die so her younger self and crew might live, but had that been a noble sacrifice? Or was it her only escape from pain she no longer knew how to endure? How
Kirsten Beyer
#78. Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
#79. How she poisoned her sisters so slyly and quietly that it took them days to die. How when it was over they looked so peaceful that had it not been for the froth on their lips, you would have thought they had died in their sleep.
Kendare Blake
#80. I had never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love doesn't seem like such a bad way to go.
Stephenie Meyer
#81. She wished Michael had had a grandfather like this guy Morty, someone to tell him, "It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth." Instead of one who showed him how to die.
Janet Fitch
#82. So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!
Melina Marchetta
#83. The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#84. No matter how long the preparation,
you will never feel ready to write an
exam, to start a business, to be parent
or even to die. Just go for it.
Moffat Machingura
#85. The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
Steven Soderbergh
#86. Origin stories are irrelevant. Nothing matters less than how you were born. What matters is how you die, and how you live. We live for each other, so anything that got us to that point must have been right.
Robin Wasserman
#87. Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.
Jacques Derrida
#88. You politicians make me sick with your heroics!
How to die with valor. How to die with dignity.
When you should be learning: how to live like a human being.
Nathan Toulane
#89. It is not about what happens to you - it is about how you perceive it. How you react to it. That is what you have control over. You can crumple up and die. Or you can be strong. That is what separates girls from women.
Morgan Rice
#90. No. I don't think so. It isn't about whether I die. It's about figuring out where. And I've decided. I'm going to see how high I can go. I want to see if it's true. If the sky opens up at the top.
Joe Hill
#91. Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope.
Michael Paterniti
#92. The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live ...
Anne Bronte
#93. Because, well, you're not immortal anymore. At least as far as we know; just because you can bleed doesn't mean you'll grow old and die. Maybe you won't."
"How can we know?"
"There's only one way to find out."
"What?"
He smiles. "You'll just have to live.
Jessica Khoury
#94. He's looking at me, torn and passionate, and I don't know how I thought I was truly alive before I met him. This is what love feels like. To no longer belong to yourself. To be pulled from what you know into what you feel. No wonder people live and die for this feeling.
Leisa Rayven
#95. None of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die. None of them will exhaust your years, but each will contribute his years to yours.
Seneca.
#96. My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.
Jonathan Maberry
#97. Even avatars have to desire to be in God in every moment. And when avatars die, they desire with all their being to be united with God. ... .. Look at Ramakrishna.
How much he wept and prayed for the Divine Mother.
Mother Meera
#98. Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
Frederic Chopin
#99. I might face death any minute now! But I should try not to put myself in harms' way as long as I can live. Of course it is not important if I die, because this is going to happen anyway. I know my purpose, my purpose is: How will my life or death impact the lives of others?
Samad Behrangi
#100. It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die.
Kate Mosse
