Died Quotes - Page 9

• Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Bowling, Kind

  "Chris Hardwick discusses his favorite episodes of Nerdist". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2013.

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• Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Realization, Christ, Raised

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• Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

  Colm Toibin

  Father, Age, Difficult

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• One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Television, Modern

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.52, RosettaBooks

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• Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?

  Jim Morrison

  World, May, Evening

  "Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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• How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Differences, Earth

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.143, Vintage

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• When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together. All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground. And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt. And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.

  Sherman Alexie

  Goodbye, Lonely, Laughter

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• The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nature, Fall, Clouds

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• In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Philosophical, Christ On The Cross

  The Antichrist aphorism 39 (1888) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

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• Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Men

  William Shakespeare (1998). “As You Like It”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sleep, Insomniac

  Garrison Keillor (2011). “Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

  Amy Carmichael

  Country, Fashion, Home

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• When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Voice, People, Would Be

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.137, Seven Stories Press

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• Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life...Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father's chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Father, People, Grandparent

  "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003.

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• Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humor, Thinking, Toilets

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

  Hermann Hesse

  Time, Faces, Saws

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.112, Om Books International

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• Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately, a mess. There are no heroes or villains, no saviors or demons or angels. Only those who have died and those of us who, for whatever reason, have survived. None of this will keep me from believing in God. I believe in Him, I just don't know that I will ever have faith in Him.

  Brady Udall

  Hero, Believe, Angel

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• At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.

  Nicole Krauss

  World, Able, History Of Love

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.165, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Inward, Ledges

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.61, Library of America

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• And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fall, Gay, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.266, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.

  Stephen King

  Dog, Fate, Boys

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• If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Romantic, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.

  Tim Dorsey

  Book, Writing, Two

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• Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Death, Mother

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• The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Eye, Men, Mind

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.76, Tachyon Publications

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