Top 100 She Died Quotes
#1. Sidda sank down into the wide flannel embrace of their bodies, and she rested. For a moment she died a little death, they died it together.
Rebecca Wells
#2. at last tears were all wept out and the little patient ache that was to be in her heart until she died took their place.
L.M. Montgomery
#3. I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.
Stephen Stills
#4. You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
Paul McCartney
#5. My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.
Lena Dunham
#6. She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.
Elizabeth Scott
#7. Reynolds was thirty-three and healthy and beautiful when she died on December 16, 1998.
Ann Rule
#8. I barely knew her at all. She was on hold, someone I'd be friends with when she got her shit together. And then she died.
Michelle Tea
#9. Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.
Garrison Keillor
#11. If I lived, she died, and I'd never find someone like her again. If she lived, I would have to die. No matter how many times I ran it through my head, there didn't seem to be another way out. One of us had to die and Rita didn't want to talk it through. She was going to let our skill decide.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#12. Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.
Rodney Dangerfield
#13. She died early the next morning, her hand in mine, as the sun flooded through her window and the light in those luminous eyes of hers faded away forever.
Michael Schmicker
#14. My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
B.B. King
#15. When my mother passed away several years ago - well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn't 'pass away.' She died. Something about that verb, 'to pass away' always sounds to me as if someone just drifted through the wallpaper. No, my mother did not pass away. She definitely died.
Steve Allen
#16. I don't remember my mother. She died when I was one year old. My distracted and callous sensibility comes from the lack of that warmth and from my useless longing after kisses I don't remember.
Fernando Pessoa
#17. Mother says she doesn't need the medication anymore, that the only cure for cancer is having a daughter who won't cut her hair and wears dresses too high above the knee even on a Sunday, because how knows what tackiness I'd do to myself if she died.
Kathryn Stockett
#18. But she died; and with my own hands I bore her to the tomb; and I laughed with a long and bitter laugh as I found no traces of the first in the channel where I laid the second.
Edgar Allan Poe
#19. Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time
weeks, months, years, decades even.
Helen Prejean
#20. And when she died, she was lonely, and scared, and she missed her books. And she pretty much just got up and walked back to her house an' started readin'.
Tim Byrd
#21. She said, once, shortly before she died, that roses smelled like happiness. Whenever she smelled a rose, she thought of the day we met.
Patricia Briggs
#22. You tell yourself it would be best for her to die. You tell yourself that if now, at this hour of the night, she died, it would be easier. For you, you probably mean, but you don't finish the sentence.
Marguerite Duras
#23. I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#24. She ne'er was really charming till she died.
Terence
#25. My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone
#26. But then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.
Mitch Albom
#27. Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.
John Webster
#28. Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.
Lenny Kravitz
#29. I'VE never seen such a look of mortal agony on a human face before. She screamed quite a bit before she died, and the last shriek was forever frozen on her face.
Robert Bloch
#30. I had an emerald ring that my mother gave me four or five years before she died. She wore it always, I wore it always, and I have given it to my daughter, and she wears it always. This ring belonged originally to my great, great grandfather. It's well over 150 years old.
Jennifer Johnston
#31. -understand. She'll want to visit her family."
"If she does, it can only be for a day at the most. I don't approve of her, but the people are fond of her, not to mention the Italians. It would be very inconvenient if she died.
Kiera Cass
#32. It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.
Olivia Sudjic
#33. Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.
Harry Connick Jr.
#34. Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.
Veronica Roth
#36. I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from day one after she died, I liked having a dead mother much more than having an impossible one. [p. 47]
Anne Lamott
#37. I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.
Harriet Walter
#39. The moment she entered the room where the man sat alone, waiting intensely, the thrill passed through her, she died in terror, and after the death, a great flame gushed up, obliterating her.
D.H. Lawrence
#40. I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.
Joan Rivers
#41. THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM. Reyna wondered bitterly how many times she'd said that in her demigod career. She should have a button made and wear it around to save time. When she died, the words would probably be written on her tombstone: There were too many of them.
Rick Riordan
#42. If Cam finally learned one lesson before she died, it would be that being kind was sometimes more important than being right.
Wendy Wunder
#43. We thought her dying whilst she slept,
And sleeping when she died.
Thomas Hood
#44. She died in a fire. I miss her like you ... If I was underwater, I wouldn't miss oxygen that much.
Dennis Lehane
#45. Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult world than any other member of our family. Pg.100
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#46. I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items.
Roma Downey
#47. My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.
Dan Chaon
#48. I don't care. They can think what they want."
"Since when? What happened to the nervous, mysterious, guarded Abby I know and love?"
"She died from the stress of all the rumors and assumptions.
Jamie McGuire
#49. I hate that her headstone has a year on it for when she was born and another for when she died but only a dash for the life she lived in between.
Juliann Garey
#50. My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
Sue Miller
#51. Tell me the story..
About how the sun loved the moon so much..
That she died every night..
Just to let him breathe ...
Hanako Ishii
#52. A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.
Arundhati Roy
#53. After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
Kristy Swanson
#54. Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#55. If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
Clifford Odets
#56. It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.
Dan Chaon
#57. I always remember your own grandmother, she continued, nodding her head, old Mrs. Taylor. She died on a Christmas Night.
Oh, I said shivering. I wouldn't like to die on a Christmas Night.
A good night to die, she smiled; they say that the gates of heaven are open on Christmas Night.
Alice Taylor
#58. If she died as a result of this journey, it wouldn't be because of slavers. It would be because Richard's inability to communicate would give her a heart attack.
Ilona Andrews
#60. My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.
Gilbert Gottfried
#61. What were you doing all those years, after you disappeared?' Doug paused, unsure of his words. 'After she died.'
Grace looked at the grave across the space she had been too weak to cross. 'I was learning to make music.
Abigail Easton
#62. She died believing in the Trinity and Heaven and Hell and all the rest of it. I'm so glad. Why? Because I loved her.
Kurt Vonnegut
#63. I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
George Stigler
#64. I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
Gail Collins
#65. She died.i survived
because i survived.i die everyday.
Ravinder Singh
#66. I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.
Isabel Allende
#68. It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating.
Fredrik Backman
#69. He listened to a fire fighter tell of a woman he had found strapped into her seat, screaming. When he cut the seat belt, she fell apart. She was being held together by the seat belt. She died at his feet.
Laurence Gonzales
#70. Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.
Robert Webb
#71. But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?
'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.
Emile Zola
#72. It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.
Lesley-Anne Down
#73. She died
this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.
Emily Dickinson
#74. It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.
Hasnat Khan
#75. My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.
Fred Rogers
#76. I've only ever kissed one girl: my Dorothy. We met in 1915 and married in 1918. She died in 1970.
Henry Allingham
#77. I Came To Mumbai With Just Rs. 1,500 ... My Mother Gave Me Before She Died
Shahrukh Khan
#78. Over the past forty days, I think I grieved for her every hour. In a way, I grieved for her before she died. And now that she was gone, I grieved for her still. Part of me wondered, however, if the grief would have been sharper, more debilitating, if I hadn't been given the month to say goodbye.
Penny Reid
#79. My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I never met my grandmother, but I carry on her name - her exact name, Eva Vertes - and I like to think I carry on her scientific passion, too.
Eva Vertes
#80. She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.
John Green
#81. I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.
Noreena Hertz
#82. The patient in question was a young woman whose parents brought her in because she complained incessantly of stomach pains. Freud diagnosed her with hysteria. A few months later, she died of abdominal cancer.
Kathryn Schulz
#83. I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died.
Barack Obama
#84. She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#86. it doesn't matter how old you are, how old your child was when he or she died, or the particular manner of your child's death; the hole in your heart never heals over. You can function in life, but you are doomed to fall far short of that contentment which had once been available to you. Soon
David Bagby
#87. She died, and left to me
This heath, this calm and quiet scene,
The memory of what has been,
And never more will be.
William Wordsworth
#88. Remember my mother - how much she suffered before she died, how thin and gray she seemed after so much surgery? I don't picture her that way anymore. I picture her as she was before she got sick.
Barbara Delinsky
#89. Jo Lane had in fact lived there for five years until she moved on. "Where did she go?" I asked innocently, not getting it. "I'm so sorry to be the one telling you this, but Jo passed last winter," the young nurse said. "She died," she added, probably because of my dazed look.
Cat Patrick
#90. A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
Vivien Leigh
#91. Torture. I totally get it, like, I get that she died or whatever.
John Green
#92. A place where we'd be forced to interact. A place where we'd stop having to pretend that my mother didn't leave way too much space in our house after she died. Rachel
Colleen Hoover
#93. Somethings you know right away to be final- when you lose your last baby tooth ... Other times, you have to work out the milestone via subtraction, a math you do to assign significance, like when I figured out that I'd just blown through my last-ever wednesday with Mom on the day after she died.
Karen Russell
#94. Sometimes I feel like my whole life before she died was a dream.
Ann Dee Ellis
#95. In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
Barbara Demick
#96. I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.
Tyler Perry
#97. But my darling was as frail as a bird. She died nine days later. After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. Although
Sara Gruen
#98. I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.
Joan Lingard
#99. My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was forty. But she did teach me to be a talker with my own children.
Susan Shreve
#100. I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
Anne Lamott
