Top 100 If I Died Quotes
#1. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.
Meghan Daum
#2. When people died, they took their voices with them. I wondered if they knew how much the people left behind would kill for their sounds one last time.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#3. Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.
Nancy E. Turner
#4. When you have to walk further, wherever it might be, I beg you, never to go alone anymore. I think that as a lesson for us all. I believe it was a warning. If Dad had been alone, he surely would have died.
Gigi Sedlmayer
#5. If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#6. I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.
Krist Novoselic
#7. It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.'
Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside she felt what Sarah knew.
Denny Taylor
#8. So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.
Rick Warren
#9. She wouldn't have died if I hadn't taught her how to fall.
Jane Casey
#10. If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.
Jeremy London
#11. I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don't know whether he would end up looking like himself. I'd be really sad if he looked strange.
Tuppence Middleton
#12. I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better
Henry Rollins
#13. His arms held me like a vice, and I wondered if he would crush the life from me, and it occurred to me that I didn't care as long as I died in his arms ...
Tess Oliver
#14. If I died right now, my life would be complete.
Tony Stewart
#15. I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
Whoopi Goldberg
#16. If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.
Andy Warhol
#17. Death scared me because I feared nothingness. If I had been nothing before I was born, then I could imagine that I would be nothing once I died.
Rachel Reiland
#18. I would leave everything and join the World Tree tomorrow if she died, " Tamani said.
"I know, " Shar whispered through the darkness.
Aprilynne Pike
#19. My motivation has to do with what happened to my family. I want to help young people make important decisions at the most important time in their life. If I didn't do this, it would be like my kids died in vain. I want to help them make the right decisions.
George Chuvalo
#20. I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried ... I am a rock.
Paul Simon
#21. If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
I. F. Stone
#22. As I sat there in the pew during the altar call, I suddenly understood that if I didn't surrender to Him I would go to Hell when I died. It wasn't Hell itself that scared me - or not just Hell. It was the idea that my mother was going to Heaven without me.
Daryl Gregory
#23. I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection.
Lee Strobel
#24. I'll explain to her, even though I don't have to. Why I did it. How if I hadn't killed her she would have died and that is something I could not bear to happen to her.
Toni Morrison
#25. I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.
Aaron Eckhart
#26. Adam pressed his hand to his face. Sighed. Right. It's just that ... He died. And I'm so freaking pissed off, I swear I'd punch him in the face if he were standing right here.
Kristina McBride
#28. The snow will cover me like a thick white blanket. It will be warm under the snow, and if they speak of me they'll have to say I died a man of the NIght Watch. I did. I did. I did my duty. No one can say I foreswore myself I'm fat and I'm weak and I'm craven, but I did my duty.
George R R Martin
#29. If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.
Fernando Torres
#30. If one day the speed kills me dont be sad because i will have died smiling
Paul Walker
#31. My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.
David Morrell
#32. In them days I just as soon died
except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.
Sonny Terry
#33. Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea.
Dana Gould
#34. I mean, I know thousands of people died and everything, but if it happened today, there's just no excuse. They'd be much safer inside a movie theater watching one of my movies instead of burning alive in a collapsing skyscraper.
Zach Braff
#35. In my confused state I wondered if I had not died and gone to hell. And if this was the case, I wished that I had been allowed more opportunities to sin, for this seemed a rather excessive judgement on what had been a frankly dull and blameless life. But I was not dead. I could see that now.
Chris Priestley
#36. If for some reason I don't make it down, I died happy.
Travis Pastrana
#37. Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it.
J.K. Rowling
#38. Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough
#39. I've never wanted anything more in my life, if i died tomorrow, being with you, like this tonight, will have been the best night of my entire existence. And it's not because of a stupid bucket list; it's because i love you.
M. Leighton
#40. A quick thought shot through my mind. Could I really drown in a dream? I remembered the movie the Matrix. If you died in the matrix, you died in real life. I wasn't about to take a chance ...
Cameo Renae
#41. If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
Lily Tomlin
#42. Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly.
"What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts.
"I was just seeing if you were listening.
David Levithan
#43. In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.
Chinua Achebe
#44. I am a hollow shell, the crab's died, there's nothing left inside. Don't they know that?
George R R Martin
#45. For a moment, all I could think of was my cousin Peter. He was twice my age - and married. By the rules of decent, he would be the one to inherit the Rothford title if I died without children. Whenever he was in town, he'd stop by and ask how I was feeling
Richelle Mead
#46. It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen ...
Stephenie Meyer
#47. I didn't even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged yellow police tape tied to some branches, dancing in the wind. It was as if the tape was waving, welcoming me back to place where I would have died.
Richard P. Denney
#48. Christ loved me enough to die for me while I was yet His enemy. If God had waited for me to learn to love Him before He died, I would never have been saved. I knew that with my head, but when I met someone who behaved in such a completely Christlike way, I was amazed. - Helen Roseveare
Noel Piper
#49. If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#50. When michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'
Sean Lock
#51. Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
Robert Frost
#52. Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'
If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.
Margaret Mitchell
#54. Should I ask about the handcuffs? (Tate)
Not unless you want to live ... otherwise if anyone asks, tell them I died of a heart attack during a wild sexcapade with her. (Kyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. I remember being told of a poor wretch I once knew, who had died of hunger. I was almost beside myself with rage! I believe if I could have resuscitated him I would have done so for the sole purpose of murdering him!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#56. They found Mr. Jesse in a boat?" I asked. "I'm wondering if maybe he just up and died. Maybe there ain't no murder. Like the fish weren't biting and he died of boredom. It happens. Boredom kills. I've had close brushes myself, during math.
Sheila Turnage
#57. She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#58. Luna, the thought of losing you is like losing my heart. You have me completely, and if you died because I wasn't there to protect you, it would kill me. I know you're strong, I know you're different, but that doesn't change my natural instincts. I still have to protect you.
Justine Winter
#59. Over the past forty days, I think I grieved for her every hour. In a way, I grieved for her before she died. And now that she was gone, I grieved for her still. Part of me wondered, however, if the grief would have been sharper, more debilitating, if I hadn't been given the month to say goodbye.
Penny Reid
#60. I do not understand how you know you only have one life if you have never died, because if you have never died, then you cannot possibly know if you would go on living a second life, or go on living no more lives.
Cassandra Kemper
#61. If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.
Barack Obama
#62. You remind me
Define me
Incline me.
If you died
I'd.
Lemn Sissay
#63. What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?
Yes. So I could be with you.
Okay.
Cormac McCarthy
#64. Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'.
Jane Russell
#65. Listen Charles, if blondes were poison, I'd have died thirty years ago.
Jonathan Latimer
#66. I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
Alex Haley
#67. What if you died?"
"I'd sit up there on the edge of my cloud and throw stuff at you."
"Jordy!"
"Daniel!"
"I love you."
"I know. I love you too.
Grasshopper
#68. Forgive me, I guess I am off in the head, but I mean, except for a quickie piece of ass it wouldn't matter to me if all the people in the world died. Yes, I know it's not nice. But I'd be as contended as a snail; it was, after all, the people who had made me unhappy.
Charles Bukowski
#69. If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?
Harry Chapin
#70. If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
Dwight L. Moody
#71. I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would ever make it past thirteen years old.
Jeff Lindsay
#72. My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.
Robbie Coltrane
#73. I asked him, 'If I had died when I fell from that tree, would I wake up in the Kingdom, freed, like they say?' And do you know what he told me, Miss Pancake? He said, 'The Kingdom of the Father is upon the land, and men do not see it.
Brett Williams
#74. I thought they loved me, and they would scarcely have known it if I had died. All through our troubles, I was comforted with the thought that the brethren in Maulmain and America were praying for us, and they have never once thought of us.
Adoniram Judson
#75. And I will go on kissing you till you are strong and gay and happy - and if they haven't died, they are still alive today.
Sigmund Freud
#76. But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.
D.H. Lawrence
#77. Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best.
-Deuce, (183)
Ann Aguirre
#78. I fell in love with you when I was ten years old because you were pretty and you weren't mean. And I would've died so many times in this life if it hadn't been for you ... my angel, my friend, my family, my hope, my joy, my love.
Katy Regnery
#79. Either my adorably sadistic grandfather has done something terrible to you, or you're about to inform me that I've died by - rather stupidly, if I say so myself - falling off a mountain," he said. "Those seem to be the only two reactions I get these days.
Alexandra Bracken
#80. But if we wait on this wedding, you can make my dress crimson. I will not wear gold if my Imperial nobility is bought with the blood of innocent civilians who died while I had a party.
Elise Kova
#81. Since the day she died, I've felt that Lucy was only mine to memorialize and that if I faltered, I'd be letting her down in the worst kind of way. The realization that she wasn't just mine comes as a painful relief.
Julie Murphy
#82. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.
J.D. Salinger
#83. When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.
Rick Baker
#84. Wha ... what are you smiling for ... ? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!!
Ryukishi07
#85. I'm afraid, Glory. Afraid of what I read in the papers. Of not knowing if Western Union will deliver a telegram from someone I've never met, telling me my husband or son died on soil my feet have never touched.
Suzanne Hayes
#86. I'm really thankful to be alive. If you get to know me, I'm a person that's always smiling and always joyful and I've been that way since I was born because of the struggles I went through. I was supposed to be number eight that died so I'm always thankful.
Dwight Howard
#87. Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
Philip Kerr
#88. I was gonna be super pissed in the afterlife if I died a virgin in this crap hole.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#89. It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...
Gwendolyn Brooks
#90. I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.
Joel Stein
#91. I am the biggest fan of my dreams. If I give up on myself, then my dreams have died...I will not let that happen.
Toye Lawson Brown
#92. If I died tomorrow, he wouldn't cheer, he wouldn't break down. He wouldn't do anything.
James L. Rubart
#93. I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
Jimmy Swaggart
#94. If there is a God, I'd like to look him in the face knowing I'd died as I lived. In conscious sin.
Sarah Kane
#95. I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.
John Green
#96. If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me in five minutes, then I've probably died a very brave and heroic death. Oh and don't Oh, and don't touch the radio
I've got it tuned right where I want it and I don't want you messing that up.
Derek Landy
#97. I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
Karin Slaughter
#98. Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.
Kim Harrison
#99. What if I have not been writing? Feelings wouldn't have died; expression wouldn't have sharpened. I wouldn't have analyzed many of my deeds and others' deeds to me. Small and irrelevant looking incidents of life wouldn't have appeared priceless.
Shankar Lamichhane
#100. The afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I wanted to know where she was now, if anywhere.
John Green
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