Top 100 Quotes About Someone Dies
#1. When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#2. The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.
Christian Boltanski
#3. On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
Amy Tan
#4. Every 19 minutes, someone dies from a prescription painkiller overdose. In fact, the number of painkiller overdose deaths now exceeds the number of deaths from heroin and cocaine combined.
Taite Adams
#5. I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.
Joe Eszterhas
#6. When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#7. And if someone dies by my hand, I won't lie to myself by believing I'm better than that.
Quoleena Sbrocca
#8. Oh well, it's over for you. Call the code at 2:03 p.m."
My eyes widened in shock. "That's what they say when someone dies."
"Exactly." He nodded. "Woman have fallen in love with me after staring like that for only thirty seconds and
I think you just took a full minute. You're doomed.
Michele Jaffe
#9. I like birthdays because we celebrate life with cakes. It's so cool. Sometimes when I see a baby, I'm like that much more cake in the world. But then when someone dies, I'm like the cake streak is over ...
Demetri Martin
#10. Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
Val Kilmer
#11. And let me say this ahead of time, if someone dies in Psycho-Pass 2, it's Ubukata Tow's fault and not mine!
Gen Urobuchi
#12. His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.
Etgar Keret
#13. Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
Doris Roberts
#14. For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.
Kevin Richardson
#16. It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know.
W.G. Sebald
#17. The Yoruba say 'o d'oju ala' when someone dies. I will see you in dreams.
Tade Thompson
#18. The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.
Sarah Manguso
#19. What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?
Veronica Roth
#20. It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.
Emily Giffin
#21. Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.
Paulo Coelho
#22. Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
Pauly Shore
#23. You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.
Glen Mazzara
#24. As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
Roland Barthes
#25. There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.
Etel Adnan
#26. If you shouldn't blame yourself for minor things you did or didn't do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself credit for tiny things you did when something really good happens?
Mark Rogerson
#27. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.
Sandra Cisneros
#28. Instead, Emerson came to accept that when someone dies, things that belong to you disappear, too.
Noel Alumit
#29. No matter what we survivors like to tell ourselves about the afterlife, when someone dies, everything is over.
Jodi Picoult
#30. Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
George Monbiot
#31. I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
Ben Marcus
#32. I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.
Ilona Andrews
#33. Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is required to remove and inter the body in such a way that it can always be located precisely at any time while preventing it from ever appearing again.
Michael Cisco
#34. People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.
James O'Barr
#35. I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.
Cassandra Clare
#36. When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.
Jodi Picoult
#37. When someone dies but love remains, it like a star you can never touch. All its beauty remains so real; in the end, you would never wish it away.
S.L. Northey
#38. We're built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.
Jimmy Iovine
#39. Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away!
Lisa Henry
#40. 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
#41. Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams.
Steve Erickson
#42. When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.
Mark Twain
#43. Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word ... nothing actually happens.
Richard Curtis
#44. Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
Mike Mills
#45. And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that's harmless, isn't it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies ... it's just a word.
Terry Pratchett
#46. It's like when someone dies. And you can't believe they're really gone because you ran into them yesterday. They were right there with you, alive and real. And that's the memory you hold on to-the moment you mourn the most.
Because it was the last.
Emma Chase
#47. Death comes to us all, that is the only thing we can be certain of. It makes no difference whether it is a thief in a garbage dump or a policeman in the line of duty. When someone dies at the hands of another, the pain for the survivors is the same.
Kjell Eriksson
#48. There's extra suffering when someone you love dies by their own hand. The ones left breathing got to find their own way to survive and make it through living still.
Sandi Morgan Denkers
#49. A star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
Gloria Naylor
#50. Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.
Soheir Khashoggi
#51. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
David Levithan
#52. Just because someone you loved dies, doesn't mean that your world ends as well.
Kimberly Lauren
#53. Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.
Robert Breault
#54. The first time you fall in love, it's like you've created the first love in the universe, and the first time someone you love dies, you grieve the universe's first death. What does it help to be told that what you feel is nothing new?
Leah Stewart
#55. I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
Jimmy Buffett
#56. It's always someone else's husband dies, they say
Ray Bradbury
#57. Let's stay friends - I mean, that really was the end!"
"What do you bet a fairy dies every time someone says that anywhere in the world?
Kerstin Gier
#58. You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.
Justin Halpern
#59. Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.
Caitlin Doughty
#60. When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.
Jim Carrey
#61. To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.
Pierre Daninos
#62. When someone we love dies suddenly and tragically, it's like seeing the curvature of the earth. You always knew it was round, a contained sphere floating in space. But when you see the bend in the horizon line, it changes your perspective on everything else.
Lisa Unger
#63. Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?" Did I wonder? When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know? Wonder dies.
Melina Marchetta
#64. When someone achieves higher consciousness, he or she never dies. They only transform.
Debasish Mridha
#65. She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, she knows the way she dies a little every time someone asks her for change and she doesn't give it to them means that she's too soft for this world or perhaps just for this city, she feels so small here.
Emily St. John Mandel
#66. All suffering has an end, David, if only you wait long enough. Sorrow has its life like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.
Anne Holm
#67. When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good.
David Servant
#68. It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.
Will Schwalbe
#69. So what if someone wrote your obituary ... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
Lou Holtz
#70. No One dies a nobody. You will always be a somebody for someone.
Trishna Damodar
#71. Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.
Rosamund Lupton
#72. Whenever we submit our will to someone else's opinion, a part of us dies
Lauryn Hill
#73. If Joanie dies before me, I wonder if I'll ever be with another woman. I can't imagine going through all of the preliminary stuff - the talk, the chatter, the dinners. I'd have to take someone places, explain my history, make jokes, dole out compliments, hold back farts.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#74. When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life. I've never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?
Jenny Han
#75. And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's next in line for therapy.
Rachel Vincent
#76. I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
Warren Farrell
#77. When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.
Ram Dass
#78. Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.
Wietse Venema
#79. Where does someone go when he dies?', 'When does fear end?', 'Where are all the single socks that disappeared in the washing machine?
Antonia Michaelis
#80. What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.
Scott Turow
#81. But maybe this is what happens when you hate someone for so long: the person you hate dies, but the hate stays with you, to keep you company.
Brock Clarke
#82. When someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going.
Rosalyn Drexler
#83. If someone we love dies, normally the experience might create misery for the rest of your life. But the Kundalini can be released so we can see that there is no death, that the person has just gone on like we all must. We will be following them soon.
Frederick Lenz
#84. You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.
Chelsea Cain
#85. To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
Jenny Agutter
#86. Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
Adolf Loos
#87. When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.
Lisa Bedrick
#88. When someone close to you dies, move seats.
Jimmy Carr
#89. Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.
Emily Bett Rickards
#90. In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
Erica Jong
#91. Everyone dies, but not everyone has to see someone they love with another person. She struck the first blow.
Peter Swanson
#92. A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again.
Marisa Silver
#94. I believe that whenever someone you love dies, a part of you goes with them. I also think that every time someone new is brought into your life, a part of you is reborn. The circle of life and death is a balancing act, God's way of making things even.
Dani Amore
#95. I used to pessimistically think I was going to die alone, but now I optimistically know I'm going to die hoping to meet someone.
Dana Gould
#96. Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares.
One Tree Hill Haley James Scott
#97. When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
Simone De Beauvoir
#98. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain. Alina was the lucky one. Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering.
Karen Marie Moning
#99. Every time someone takes a sip of Guinness, a part of straight marriage dies,
Bobby Jindal
#100. Anytime someone orders a pastrami sandwich on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
David Sax
