Top 100 Reason Die Quotes
#1. It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically ...
Georgia O'Keeffe
#2. The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
Seth MacFarlane
#3. Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.
Patrick Rothfuss
#4. ...Pff... there is always a reason for everything if you go deeper and deeper under the sea you will die in the same time, even you will drown however you will find the reason. It's about 50 out of 100 which will mean 50% chance you have to live and 50% there is a chance to die.
Deyth Banger
#5. But sick or well, humans are fragile creatures, you know. There's no anticipating how or when they might die, or for what reason
Soseki Natsume
#6. Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
Abraham Lincoln
#7. We could track down a gang guy wanted for armed robbery and assault." "That sounds like a lot of fun, but I might have to pass on account of I don't want to die right now." "We could visit some of Sunny's relatives and ask if he's staying with them." "Ditto for the above reason.
Janet Evanovich
#8. The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.
Miguel De Unamuno
#9. Listen to me, Jez. There's no reason for you to die-"
Wood ... poison."
No it isn't! Not to humans. And you're half human. You're vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you're human enough not to be poisoned by wood.
L.J.Smith
#10. What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.
Mikhail Lermontov
#11. In one hundred years people will still remember our kind of love; a love that knows no bounds - that surpasses all reason - and will never, never die. (Loving Lily Lavender)
DeAnna Kinney
#12. If people saw the world for what it truly is. Saw their lives for what they truly are. Without dreams or illusions. I don't believe they could offer the first reason why they should not elect to die as soon as possible.
Cormac McCarthy
#13. Sluka shook her head. We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.
Alastair Reynolds
#14. Men's willingness to die for his country, is the reason he has to.
Anonymous
#15. Anyhow, Molly died, in the way that all really good things die, fast and brutal and for no apparent reason.
David Wong
#16. He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.
Socrates
#17. Maybe it should just make you feel lucky. Yeah, you were really lucky you didn't die after the accident. But you were a lot luckier to be born in the first place. So if you're here for a reason, maybe we all are.
Rebecca Stead
#18. Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby
#19. Witches know that people die; and if they manages to die after a long time, leavin' the world better than they went an' found it, well then, that's surely a reason to be happy. All the rest of it is just tidyin' up.
Terry Pratchett
#20. It's not easy to throw your life away, even for a good reason, even when it's the right thing to do. It was simple enough. Debt or no: Syd did not want to die.
Alex London
#21. Merjack and Whelms wouldn't be satisfied until Devyn was dead. They were like madmen who couldn't be won with reason or intellect. Devyn was going to die. And most likely so would she.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. life is the reason for living and death is the reason for dying if we are to live, why die ? there is a ending for everything and being alive gives us a chance to do something and enjoy it.
Pamela
#24. That's the way it is. The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die
Robert M. Pirsig
#26. I reason, earth is short, And anguish absolute, And many hurt; But what of that? I reason, we could die: The best vitality Cannot excel decay; But what of that? I reason that in heaven Somehow, it will be even, Some new equation given; But what of that?
Emily Dickinson
#27. The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.
Rick Warren
#29. One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.
Katharine Whitehorn
#30. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.
Elton Trueblood
#31. In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
Thomas Aquinas
#32. All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.
William Johnson Cory
#33. Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#34. Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,
Charles Bukowski
#35. We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.
David Mamet
#36. For some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
Markus Zusak
#37. Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#38. The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not fallen and firefights with die-hard Ba'athists loyal to Saddam Hussein were raging all over the city.
Lawrence Anthony
#39. Something in Alaric's chest tightened painfully at the thought of Quinn, but he refused to allow it to overcome him. She would be fine. She had to be fine. If Quinn were to die, he would have no reason to continue existing.
Alyssa Day
#42. Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant not to become one of those people I despised.
Pete Townshend
#43. Burning in a hot tunnel of dismay, my humiliation complete as I shake without reason and stumble over words and have nothing to say about my 'illness' which anyway amounts only to knowing that there's no point in anything because I'm going to die.
Sarah Kane
#44. First, everyone's going to die. Second, love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. Against all reason I loved my father. Did you love yours?
Kristin Cashore
#45. And have they fixed the where, and when?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's thirty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
Robert Stephen Hawker
#46. We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us.
- William H. Gass, "Mr. Gaddis and His Goddamn Books" (2006)
William H Gass
#47. The primary reason Jesus came to earth was to inaugurate the Kingdom of God. Often, we hear that the reason Jesus came to the earth was to die on the Cross. Jesus did come to die on the Cross, but that death on the Cross was for the purpose of establishing the Kingdom of God.
John Eckhardt
#48. He said, You know, whoever hurt you
dies every time they look in the mirror.
That is how they pay."
She crossed her arms.
"And one day, Maria, you will die too,
but there's no reason for you to die
every day.
Toby Barlow
#49. The reason why women think men should spend a lot of money on an engagement ring is because women are the ones who get to clean up all the poop (stains and toilet bowl swirls included) that is provided by every family member living in the house until they die.
Heather Chapple
#50. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
Patrick Ness
#51. There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose.
J.I. Packer
#52. It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.
Howard Schultz
#53. Why do you worry without cause? Whom do you fear without reason? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born, nor does it die.
Nitin Agarwal
#54. It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)
Victoria Moran
#55. Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today I can die for something - my way, my choice.
Jack Bauer
#56. The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard ... Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.
Jennifer Weiner
#57. I felt a tickle on my skin; it took me a moment to realize that Cole was driving his die-cast Mustang up my arm. He was laughing to himself, hushed and infectious, as if there was still any reason to be quite.
Maggie Stiefvater
#58. Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. The Arrow Squad had to die. For some inexplicable reason, this midlevel telepath and field medic was its nucleus; cut him out and the resulting fractures would mean the rest would be far easier to eliminate.
Nalini Singh
#60. Life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.
William Faulkner
#61. The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.
Burl Ives
#62. First, I look at history the way I look at evolution. Some things die out for a good reason, and should be left dead. I put dictatorships and velociraptors in the same category: leave them in the past, where they can serve as frightening object lessons for the present.
Holly Lisle
#64. The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating.
Jim Harrison
#65. 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
#66. Why is it that when people die, we make such an effort to turn them into saints? Especially when the entire reason we loved them so much in the first place is because they weren't.
Alison Arngrim
#67. The reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
Katherine Paterson
#68. Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
Emil Cioran
#69. If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
Marilyn Manson
#70. I'd never given much too thought to how I would die- though I'd had reason enough in the last few months- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.
Stephenie Meyer
#71. Yes, this world is truly terrible, which is why the pure and the holy come bravely forward: They have decided to eradicate the sins of the world. They want to standardize people, keep them in order, keep them in place under their own rear ends. They are the reason I have had to die a hundred times.
Zhang Xianliang
#72. The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
Chuck Palahniuk
#73. There behind me on the stretchers my comrades are now lying and still they call. It is peace, yet they must die. But I, I am trembling with joy and am not ashamed. - And that is odd. Because none can ever wholly feel what another suffers - is that the reason why wars perpetually recur? 2
Erich Maria Remarque
#75. American youth is looking for a reason to die.
Jerry Rubin
#77. You've got this guy who refuses to die for some reason whether it be a physical or metaphysical reason or spiritual reason so you can do anything. You can kill off anybody and you can still bring them back because he's kind of half there and half in reality, you know?
Josh Brolin
#78. It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett
#79. If you have not known love, then the only reason not to die is that life will get better or god exists. If you don't believe in either, perhaps it is time for you to go.
Amit Agarwal
#80. Dying over an argument isn't honor, it's a waste of a man's life. A man volunteers to die for a cause he believes in, or to protect others he cares about. Any other reason is nothing more than stupidity." ~Ian Thornton
Judith McNaught
#82. My heart is not brave or big. It is not cruel either. It is not strong at all. I keep it within this iron cage for a reason. Breathe on it wrong and I will die ... Just go now. I would rather let you see my face, than my heart.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace
Rebecca Ashe
#83. My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life
Emilie Autumn
#84. Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.
Henry Ford
#85. Part of the reason I haven't found a man who appeals to me is because men aren't raised to be men anymore, in my opinion. Gone are the take-the-bull-by-the-horns, never-say-die men legends are made of.
C.P. Smith
#86. People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
P. J. O'Rourke
#87. When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.
Curtis Jackson
#88. I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don't expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.
William T. Vollmann
#89. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#90. God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjold
#91. Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#92. I refuse to believe that the only reason we are here is to pay taxes and die.
Seth Adam Smith
#93. The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson
#94. Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
Clark Gable
#95. I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov
#96. Have you thought this through? People die, love. I'm all for women, but this isn't a woman's game.'
For some reason, this irritates me more than anythign else I've heard all day. It's not even relevant.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It's the end. If the watch doesn't work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us.
Yann Martel
#98. No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And, indeed, experience seems to urge a different conclusion. Sometimes a man undergoes such changes that I should hardly have said he was the same man.
Baruch Spinoza
#99. You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.
Alec Sulkin
#100. What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason
and it's not to fail and die.
Ransom Riggs
