Top 100 Quotes About When You Die
#1. You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have to. When it came to my brother, it was written across her face in 112-point Tupac Gothic.
Junot Diaz
#2. Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. But you know what? You don't ever see a hearse pulling a U Haul.
Jim Hightower
#3. It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#4. In a way, I think a part of you has to die in order to get through a thing like that. It's the only way a person can survive it. When
Michelle Knight
#5. When you die I bet you want real life, pure real life, eulogies that are unpoetic and messy, smeared with tears and truisms, cliched as hell, the kind of stuff a person means.
Kate Hattemer
#6. When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?"
"Only if you had your hand stamped ...
Charles M. Schulz
#7. 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
#8. You dont have to know a soul to know what I know
to expect what I'm expecting
to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day
When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse
Jack Kerouac
#9. If you take yourself to be the body and mind only, you will die! When you discover yourself as awareness, the fear of death will not trouble you any longer.
Mooji
#10. 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
#12. There exists in every person a place that is free from disease, that never feels pain, that cannot age or die. When you go to this place, limitations which all of us accept, cease to exist. They are not even entertained as a possibility. This is the place called perfect health.
Deepak Chopra
#13. "Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"
"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."
"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.
Hans Christian Andersen
#14. When you have something you would die to protect it ceases to be a matter of courage." Niobe explained, "You just know what you have to do and you can't afford fear.
Piers Anthony
#15. I'm going to miss him like hell when he's gone," she eventually continued. "It's going to rip half my soul out. If you weren't here for me, I would fucking give up and die the minute he quit breathing.
Tymber Dalton
#16. Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.
Swami Vivekananda
#17. Didn't it often happen, she thought, that aged parents die exactly at the moment when other people (your husband, your adolescent children) have stopped being thrilled to see you coming? But a parent is always thrilled, always dwells so lovingly on your face as you are speaking.
Anne Tyler
#18. Where will you go, when the clock strikes twelve? What will you do, when you face yourself? How will you live, knowing what you've done? How will you die, if your soul's already gone?
Marie Lu
#19. The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.
Matthew Healy
#20. When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.
Frederick Lenz
#21. If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die.
Nhat Hanh
#22. When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.
Ingmar Bergman
#23. Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living.
Katelin LaMontagne
#24. When you die, your soul crosses the Dusk between life and the Blank Sea. The journey takes forty-nine days,
David Mitchell
#25. 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
#26. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
Alexandra Monir
#27. Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.
Yoko Ono
#28. At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.
Ray Rhodes
#29. 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
#30. Steal not this book for fear of shame
For on it is the owners name
And when you die the Lord will say
Where is the book you stole away
And when you say you do not know
The Lord will say go down below.
L.M. Montgomery
#31. How can people die when you're in a fight with them? When you're smack in the middle of hating them? When absolutely nothing between you has been worked out?
Jandy Nelson
#32. I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.
Michael Scott
#33. When you die, you die. And everything is over.
Jodi Picoult
#34. Follow your heart and what it's saying,
after you die, an when you live.
What he/ she lives is what she/he is giving to you .
Enjoy it and you'll be happy.
Love isn't a game ,love is a portrait, of a beautiful butterfly flapping it's wings to the horizon.
Avis
#35. When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.
Irene Nemirovsky
#36. 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
#37. Here's what happens when you die
you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.
Howard Stern
#38. You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.
Muhammad Ali
#39. In one scene, when I was supposed to say, "In a pig's eye you are," what came out was, "In a pig's ass you are." Old habits die awfully hard.
Ava Gardner
#40. The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.
Martin Luther
#41. What you do and what you are gradually become the same thing, and are identical when you die. And what you have done to another person becomes a part of your substance as surely as a fruit you have eaten.
Patricia Storace
#42. Your life, unfortunately - and I mean this - your life is built on when love dies. There's a lot of love in your life that will simply die. And you wish that you died with it, you know? But you don't. And you go, oh, well, here I am.
Wayne Coyne
#43. 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
#44. When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
Rumi
#45. 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
#46. That's fine. You decide to live one moment at a time. When it's time to die, really time, you will know. -Seraphina/ Kailey
Avery Williams
#47. The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting when people die, gives us dirty laundry.
Don Henley
#48. Love is only what you think it is at the time. Or what you make it. It doesn't exist of itself. It's born out of the spark that ignites when two people suddenly notice each other. Or it isn't. I mean, sparks die too, or you kill them deliberately.
Elizabeth Bailey
#49. When you die, the only things you leave behind are memories in the minds of those who loved you. That was how you lived on.
Robyn Peterman
#50. You are always laughing at the wrong moment; you are considered cruel and heartless when in reality you are only tough and durable. But if you would laugh when others laugh and weep when they weep then you must be prepared to die as they die and live as they live.
Henry Miller
#51. HARPER: I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you.
Tony Kushner
#53. Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort of death. And when you die, only then do you enter into the divine.
Rajneesh
#54. Do you earn for others to burn? Why not GIVE as you LIVE, so that when you die, the world will cry.-RVM
R.v.m.
#55. Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying - it seems they never die at all.
Scott Lynch
#56. 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
#57. Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.
J.I. Packer
#58. I have often thought," she said, "that women are the only true adults in the world, and men are a species of children. When babies are born, when the sick are struggling for life, when the old die, you will see women about, but rarely men.
Phyllis T. Smith
#59. 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
#60. It's easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it's real, when the moment comes to choose.
Ann Leckie
#61. 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
#62. What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.
Dane Cook
#63. I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.
Jim Stafford
#64. Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.
Michelle Franklin
#65. You come into this world alone and die alone, but there's a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and even fun with the right people. And when it's not fun, they'll be with you, too.
Julie Klam
#66. That one person everyone looks for. They search and search, and some die trying to find 'em. And when you finally meet them, something inside of you says "Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you. And I didn't even know it.
Belle Aurora
#67. It's not unusual to be loved by anyone, it's not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it's not unusual to see me cry. I wanna' die.
Tom Jones
#68. The second you give up is when you start to die. You have to fight to make it.
Joe Hart
#69. Associate with people in such a manner that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#70. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you. There's your breasts, and your genitals, and they're amazingly stupid, like babies or faithful dogs, they don't get it, they just want him. Want him.
Tony Kushner
#71. This is a truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon yet undrawn.
Miyamoto Musashi
#72. We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
Bono
#73. You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.
Anne Graham Lotz
#74. Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.
David Duchovny
#75. You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.
Victoria Osteen
#76. When something upsets you in life, you only have two choices: Get over it or die mad.
Charline Ratcliff
#77. I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die.
Bobby Womack
#78. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
Gautama Buddha
#79. When do you bleed a patient?"
The question brought me up short. "When I want him to die?" I asked dubiously.
Patrick Rothfuss
#80. When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.
Mel Gibson
#81. Their separation was becoming intolerable. "I would rather die!" said Emma. She was writhing in his arms, weeping. "Adieu! adieu! When shall I see you again?
Gustave Flaubert
#82. I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry. When we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.
Benjamin Harrison
#83. I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die
M.T.
#84. That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.
Mike Barnicle
#85. There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that.
M.M. Kaye
#86. I've never feared death before. I've always been willing to die. Sometimes I even welcomed it, wishing for this all to be over and finally find peace in an endless sleep. But when I look at you, I see possibility, and I start to do what I know better than to do - I wonder
Emalynne Wilder
#87. It was one of the constants of life. You are born, you die, you stand up when the bus doors open.
Jennifer Brown
#88. When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.
Tom Shadyac
#89. Water walks with the moon and embraces the earth, and it isn't afraid to die in fire or live in air. When you step into it, it will be as close as your own skin, but if you hit it too hard, it will shatter you .
Emmi Itaranta
#91. There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
Neil MacGregor
#92. 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
#93. There is always time, it is never too late....When you die and you haven't done it, then it's too late!
Deyth Banger
#94. I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.
Jerri Nielsen
#95. Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there ... when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes ... you don't know what that's like.
J.K. Rowling
#96. When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity.
Howard Schultz
#97. They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes.
They lied.
The only thing Nick Gautier could see flashing was Kyrian Hunter's vampire fangs.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#98. When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#99. That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.
Clara Hughes
#100. And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
Melina Marchetta
