Top 100 Time To Die Quotes
#1. When the time to die comes, it does not matter how and when it happens.
Albert Camus
#2. 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
#4. We labor to preserve the life of the body, but ultimately life and death are out of our hands. If the patient lives awhile longer, a certain kind of good will result. If God ordains that this is the time to die, another kind of good will result.
Michael D. O'Brien
#5. When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.
Kelly Moran
#6. Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment.
Rainbow Rowell
#9. Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.
Lurlene McDaniel
#11. When you reach your peak its time to die.
GG Allin
#12. Time to die. Angel said in her sweet little girl voice.
James Patterson
#13. When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.
Frederick Lenz
#15. My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
Joni Mitchell
#16. When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.
Sue Monk Kidd
#17. I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's your time to live. Don't mess it up.
Sue Monk Kidd
#18. There's a time to live and a time to die.
The only trouble is, when would you know?
When would your mind let you freely sacrifice your life?
Life is as long or as short as you want it to be.
Or so they say.
Paul Leslie Griffiths
#19. This was selfish and wasteful. Cowardly. Nobody should voluntarily give up on life. If it was your time to die, death would calmly claim you. Otherwise it was your duty to press on and live. P29
Darren Shan
#21. Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
Jim Morrison
#22. There is
a time to live
and a time to die
but never to reject the moment.
Lao-Tzu
#23. When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith
#25. O Christie! never think it's time to die till you are called; for the Lord leaves us till we have done our work, and never sends more sin and sorrow than we can bear and be the better for, if we hold fast by Him.
Louisa May Alcott
#26. As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest
From the root to the top of the tree,
Then flies to another tree,
So have I bored into life to find what lay therein,
And now it is time to die,
And I will fly to another tree.
Sidney Lanier
#27. God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.
Elif Shafak
#28. Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.
Garth Nix
#29. There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#30. Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
Stephen Levine
#33. When its time to die, you don't want to realize you haven't lived.
Lee Johnson
#34. Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.
Shannon Hoon
#35. When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#36. The right time to die is never exactly now.
Mason Cooley
#37. He finally had a reason to live, just in time to die.
Lisa Kessler
#38. There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.
Spike Milligan
#39. When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most critical hour, and usher me into the presence of God, and I will dwell with the Lord forever. Thank God for the ministry of His blessed angels.
Billy Graham
#40. For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.
Garth Nix
#41. You feel like you stopped living when he went missing. You feel like the rest of your days are killing time until it's time to die.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#42. I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want. Then it's probably time to die.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#43. When I'm dead worn out, in a reverie, I often think that when it comes time to die, I want to breathe my last in a kitchen. Whether it's cold and I'm all alone, or somebody's there and it's warm, I'll stare death fearlessly in the eye. If it's a kitchen, I'll think, 'How good.
Banana Yoshimoto
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.
Abigail Strom
#47. The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.
Matthew Lillard
#48. You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.
Anthony Bourdain
#49. We visited the unlucky in the hospital and went to funerals, always remarking on the tragedy. But every time we stepped too close to it, we saw our own demises. We went with the full knowledge that we would one day die as well.
Donna Augustine
#50. Some of us die long before our last breath. We perish in the fire of love, reduced to ashes in the consuming blaze. No, we do not die when our hearts cease to beat, but when they start beating the first time
for somebody else.
Shakieb Orgunwall
#51. Name ten songs you want to hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them. Because right now all you have is time, but someday that time will run out. That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.
Paul Baribeau
#52. If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?
Jodi Picoult
#53. I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.
Medgar Evers
#54. We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
Octavio Paz
#55. "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
#56. I'll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#57. No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.
Annie Dillard
#58. At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.
Enson Inoue
#59. Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle - like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.
Dan Brown
#60. I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die ... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
Yuichiro Miura
#61. Sometimes you know that you are destined to die, but somehow you are given a parenthesis after the punctuation mark: more years, more time that wasn't meant for you but still was meant for you, a bridge stretching out into the stars, a confidence built of invisible threads, a miracle.
Lene Fogelberg
#62. I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.
Edward Hirsch
#63. True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
Neill Blomkamp
#67. Dreams never die. Sometimes you think they are dead, but they are just hibernating lie some old bear. And, if the dream has been hibernating for a long time, that bear is going to wake up grumpy and hungry
Harlan Coben
#68. People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again
James St. James
#69. No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#70. I'm not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it's her time, it's her time. I'm not at war with Atropos. It's her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. Miss Treason! Remember you have an appointment!"
It wasn't the best thing to say, but a lot better than: "You said you were going to die in about five minutes' time!
Terry Pratchett
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Life is what you do while you're waiting to die ... Life is how the time goes by
Fred Ebb
#75. A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.
Edward Abbey
#76. I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.
Julia Quinn
#77. That the gods die from time to time is due to man's sudden discovery that they do not mean anything, that they are made by human hands, useless idols of wood and stone.
C. G. Jung
#78. I like to think that birds do not die, they simply fly away to heaven when their time here on earth is up
Ella Clem
#79. God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before.
How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them? All that romance about snow and seasons ... You shouldn't have to make a special effort not to die every time you left your house.
Rainbow Rowell
#80. To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realize that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.
Ray Toro
#81. To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic
Anton Chekhov
#82. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.
Curtis Jackson
#83. It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die.
Terry Wogan
#84. Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.
Richard Rohr
#85. I'm fine, she said. But her smile was bleak, without light or warmth. And for the first time I thought of what it must be like to know that you were going to die, that the trees would bud, flower, leaf, dry, die, and you would not be there to see any of it.
Anna Quindlen
#86. If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.
Dan Simmons
#87. Am I going to have to die first before I come here every time? Because no offense, but for fuck's sake, I can just give you a cell phone to call.
J.R. Ward
#88. There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
Kevin J. Anderson
#89. Life kicks you and you begin to die, it kicks you again and you don't care anymore, it kicks you one last time and it puts hate it in your heart, the treachery of it all.
J.M. August
#90. That's right you little fucktart, she thought. Time to eat shit and die.
Benjamin R. Smith
#91. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.
Mitch Albom
#92. I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.
Trent Reznor
#93. We are not sure of sorrow; and joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#94. Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.
Dean Potter
#95. A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Stewart Alsop
#96. We are all going to die soon. Do you really wish to waste time being angry at me?"
"Yes. I remain an unrepentant optimist. If i see that I am about to die, or you, I will forgive you. But not until then, you bastard.
Sherry Thomas
#97. At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
Larry Hagman
#98. People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.
Woody Allen
#99. There is a moment when a man thinks he's going to die when he's terrified," Drizzt replied. "Then there is a moment when a man is sure he's going to die when he's outraged. That moment, upon the Luskar right now, is the time of greatest courage and the time when enemies should quiver in fear.
R.A. Salvatore
#100. If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.
Jello Biafra
