Top 98 Once You Die Quotes
#1. You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
Huey Newton
#2. There is no heaven or hell.
No matter what you do while you're alive, everybody goes to the same place once you die.
Death is Equal.
Tsugumi Ohba
#3. I'm gonna kiss you, Lily Parker. Because you're the sweetest and most beautiful girl I've ever met, and if I don't I might die. But once I do, you're gonna belong to me.
Alexa Riley
#4. Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.
Jodi Picoult
#5. As Chains had once said, feeling like you wanted desperately to die was fine evidence that you had yet to do so.
Scott Lynch
#6. He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body was like a dilapidated old house from which all furniture and fixtures have been removed and which awaited now only its final demolition.
Haruki Murakami
#7. Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick.
Suzanne Collins
#8. They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#9. If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you, everything becomes insignificant!
Leo Tolstoy
#10. I don't know if once you die you remember things that happened to you when you were alive. It makes a certain logical sense that you wouldn't. That being dead will feel like before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness.
Gayle Forman
#11. All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
Caitlin Doughty
#12. The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Mitch Albom
#13. When you say that Christ did not die for all men, you are abusing a weakness of men, who at once apply this exception to themselves, and this encourages despair, instead of turning them away from it to encourage hope.
Blaise Pascal
#14. My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. If you don't know that, he said, what are you worth? Nothing. You're not a man at all.
Tana French
#15. Neil Leckman
I had a friend once that told me when we die and get to the pearly gates we are admitted based on our deeds.
1 good deed is a step forward
1 bad deed is two steps back.
By the time he's through with you I'm not sure you'll even be able to see the gates!!
Neil Leckman
#16. You killed me." My voice was unsteady.
He held me close again. "I brought you back."
"Please tell me we only have to do that once."
He whispered against my ear, "I swear I won't kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die." It was a bad joke
Catrina Burgess
#17. You're goan to stay here and watch out for Evie. Earn your keep for once. You see a chance to kill or die for her today, then you take it!
Kresley Cole
#18. Make the most of the moments with those you love, it's once upon a person to Live and then Die. Give them the most precious gift of all Time!
Otis Teague
#19. It's funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don't think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don't know it till you die."
- Patty Belle Bellani
Marianne Macdonald
#20. When you wish upon objects in the sky,
Not knowing if you'll live or die,
Heal my heart and heal my head,
And for once sweet dreams,
When I crash in bed.
James L. Rubart
#21. Miz Fitz,
If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven.
-Hellbound, a Lass
Miz Fitz sez:
You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.
Pete Hautman
#22. We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive ... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.
Candace Fleming
#23. Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
Thornton Wilder
#24. Once you realise there's nothing to be afraid of when you die, there's nothing else to worry about.
Michael Thomas Ford
#25. Wait till the honeying of the lune, love! Die eve, little eve, die! We see that wonder in your eye. We'll meet again, we'll part once more. The spot I'll seek if the hour you'll find. My chart shines high where the blue milk's upset.
James Joyce
#26. You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
Moliere
#27. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
Muriel Barbery
#28. from Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon, 'For once I saw with my own eyes the Cumaean Sibyl hanging in a jar. When the boys asked her, "Sibyl, what do you want?" she said, "I want to die." '" Long
Lauren Groff
#29. This is what happens when people die. They start to disappear if you don't watch it. Not all at once, but a piece here, a piece there.
Jennifer Niven
#30. I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in love so hard your soul is sucked out through your eyes, and that's the moment of death. It's a lovely, strange old Jewish legend.
Neil Gaiman
#31. If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
Al Franken
#32. You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.
Richard Selzer
#33. Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
Maelle Gavet
#34. If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
Robert Wyatt
#35. Someone once said that unforgiveness was like a poison you drink while hoping for someone else to die.
Jennifer Heng
#36. One's story isn't a skin to be shed - it's inescapable, one's body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that's at once your invention and the invention of you.
Philip Roth
#37. Since you're probably going to die, you might as well know- I love you nearly as much as I hate you."
His eyes fluttured just once as he murmured, "Me too.
Teresa Medeiros
#38. It is good to live like this. Once you are ready to die, you do not suffer so badly from the horror.
Chris Cleave
#39. Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#40. IF YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE FULLY, YOU WILL ONLY DIE ONCE. BUT IF YOU ARE SCARED, FEAR WILL KILL YOU DAY AFTER DAY.
Paulo Coelho
#41. When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Samuel Butler
#42. Which epitaph would you choose for your grave-stone: "He made lots of money." or "He saved the Earth"? And don't think I'm being sarcastic, because for once, I'm not. We're all going to die. What will be your legacy? Smaug-loads of money? or Saving the Earth? It's your choice.
Steve Bivans
#43. I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.
Charlie Sheen
#44. My birth was a blessing. Sent to live and die on Earth; it's a blessing. We each have a star; all you have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone sees it, you won't be blinded.
DMX
#45. So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.
Sammy Hagar
#46. I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD ... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it
Jim Morrison
#47. I blinked once, "if it's anywhere near as bad as what those assholes did to me... I'm tired of living through this shit just to step into deeper fucking shit. So if all you have planned for me is more torture, I think I'd rather die. Just do me one favor and don't... I don't want to die slow.
C.J. Roberts
#49. A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister
#50. Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you
Joanne Harris
#51. Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die.
Shaquille O'Neal
#52. Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?
Madonna Ciccone
#53. It's like concentrating on your own breath: once you start thinking about the air rushing in and out of your body, your breath has a way of getting stuck in your throat so that you understand how easy it would be to fall down and die.
Carol Shields
#54. If you're born once, you die twice; but if you're born twice, you die once.
David J. Stewart
#55. My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.
Dick Dale
#57. I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.
Christian Boltanski
#58. You only know of existence, once you rebel. You only know of life, once you die.
Lionel Suggs
#59. Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?
Carol Vorderman
#60. I was naked and he had more possessions than he could use all at once. I was the proletarian, he was the capitalist, and my relations to him were reduced to the basic proposition of all revolutions: die, I want what you have. It was the first time in my life I'd taken an interest in politics.
MacDonald Harris
#61. If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.
Steven J. Lawson
#62. Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
David Benioff
#63. I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.
John Green
#64. Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin.
Don't die.
I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me.
Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. What are you bitching about, Xypher? You're already dead.
He laughed. You know, for once, it's good to be me.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#65. If Hard proves to be not hard enough for you, you can go "Hardcore," which means that if you die, you stay dead. That is very hardcore indeed, as Heidegger once observed.
Charlie Huenemann
#66. We do not make mistakes. Surrender at once! Resistance is fertile!"
"Don't you mean futile?"
" ... That's what I said! Surrender or die!
Toby Frost
#67. I've been thinking a lot aboit the energy of the universe. And if energy can't ever be created or destroyed, only transferred, what do you think happens to people's energy once they die?
Jasmine Warga
#68. If you have been born only once, you will have to die twice. But if you have been born twice, you will have to die only once (and you may even escape that one death if Jesus returns to the earth during your lifetime).
David Jeremiah
#69. In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.
Suzy Kassem
#70. I would rather die than betray his trust."
"That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed.
"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.
J.K. Rowling
#71. Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.
Kingsley Amis
#72. I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.
Edna Ferber
#73. Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you "are killed." Don't die of fright. Die fighting. Don't go down till you are knocked down.
Swami Vivekananda
#74. We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can't share either experience.
P.D. James
#75. Death - so feared and so dodged - was, once you faced it, the simplest thing going. In order to die, one merely had to stop attempting to live. One merely had to agree to vanish. If Alma simply remained still, pinned beneath the bulk of this unknown opponent, she would be effortlessly erased.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?
John Cleese
#77. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.
Frank Herbert
#78. Shawty Imma only tell you this once, you the illest
And for your loving Imma die hard like Bruce Willis
Nicki Minaj
#79. What if a wizard was sent to kill him?"
"Well, as to that," Desmond replied, drawing his.longsword, "wizards die the same as the other men, once you cut their heads off.
George R R Martin
#80. As he was
forced to tell his father more than once, "I said I'd fight for my mother's
throne. I never said I'd die for it." Then he'd add, simply to annoy the old
bastard into one of his frothy temper tantrums, "Don't you think I'm too
pretty to die?
G.A. Aiken
#81. Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn't matter if you're going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)
Stephen Levine
#82. Once you kill all of us, and you're alone, you'll die! The hate will die. That hate is what moves you, nothing else! That envy moves you. Nothing else! You'll die, inevitably. You're not immortal. You're not even alive, you're nothing but moving hate.
Ray Bradbury
#83. me, "You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes. I had determined, once, that the memory of these evils should die with me; but you have won me to alter my determination.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#84. Not yet," he wailed, as raw as the earth. "But you lay as though already dead, and I cannot go on without you. Do not leave me; do not die!" And I felt a grief from him to melt the mountain ice. Grief to drown in. Grief to both rend my heart and mend it at once.
Tosca Lee
#85. It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke.
Tim Blixseth
#86. And music, your music, it teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away and you're not here! Let hopes pass! Let dreams pass! Let them die! Without you, what are they for? I always feel no more than half-way real 'til I hear you sing once more!
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#87. Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build up and harden and die inside. That's when you're in big trouble.
Haruki Murakami
#88. When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler
#89. And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.
Donald Miller
#90. Love is like a match to a wick. It takes that right combination to strike a flame. But once the flame is there, it can either give warmth, die out or burn your world to ashes. Even kill you. It's how you sustain the flame, feed it, and moderate the amount of energy in balance.
Anthony Liccione
#92. You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski
#93. If you are scared you die every day. If you are not scared, you die only once.
Giovanni Falcone
#94. It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.
Bobby Darin
#95. A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.
Hani
#96. I saw you and thought to myself, 'If there's a God, please let me make love to her at least once before I die.
Mia Asher
#97. If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.
Philip Freneau
#98. Moses told me once that you can't escape yourself. You can run, hide, or die. But wherever you go, there you'll be.
Amy Harmon