Little Deaths Quotes

#1. Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

Lisa Wingate

#2. You know deep down something is over a long time before you face it and do something about it. In bed, as in life, we pass through endless little deaths and wake reborn from them to start again. This is what it is to be human.

Chloe Thurlow

#3. All women on earth
and men, too for that matter
hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

Lisa See

#4. We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

Clive Barker

#5. That on any day you could pick there are thousands and thousands of little deaths, tiny tragedies, and that all of them matter.

Philip Beard

#6. Little crimes like mine didn't matter anymore. Little deaths like yours didn't make a sound.

Philip Beard

#7. But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.

Elisabeth Elliot

#8. The Little War?
How can there be
a little war?
Are some deaths
smaller than others,
leaving mothers
who weep
a little less?

Margarita Engle

#9. There are no signs of religion at all; no priest to hear my sins, no God to push open the pearly gates, nor a devil to welcome me with a pitchfork. All of this seems so meaningless.

Nicholas A. McGirr

#10. B. A." Here you can infer B, no matter which

Jonathan Baron

#11. Not much. I've very little imagination. It's the imaginative chaps who suffer." "'The coward dies a thousand deaths

K.J. Charles

#12. You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. He should not be toying with her this way, drawing her into a dance round the funeral pyre, chancing that she would burn. -- Nicolas, le Diable.

Leigh Winterstine

#14. Because the trivial concerns oneself, one fails to see it might be boring.

Clive James

#15. We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

Chuck Klosterman

#16. According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.

Jonathan Stroud

#17. We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.

Lance Armstrong

#18. A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? 'Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man ... only 500?'

Meredith Willson

#19. Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

Bryan White

#20. I know most people have given up on a happy ending. But I can't. I have to hope.

Jenelle Schmidt

#21. CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.

Amy Ridenour

#22. Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

Epicurus

#23. After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

Julio Cortazar

#24. In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

Barton Gellman

#25. He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

Antonio Porchia

#26. Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Jim Rohn

#27. Although I kept postponing my dream, I realized that I could do so no longer, and that the universe always favors those who fight for what they want. After

Paulo Coelho

#28. The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's ... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.

Lucinda Williams

#29. Leave it to him to get messed up with deaths little girl

Larissa Ione

#30. The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Francois Fenelon

#31. According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense.

Richard K. Morgan