Dies Quotes - Page 35

• Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

  Alexander Pope

  Honest, Fame, Let Me

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.132

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• Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Tree, Despair, Cypresses

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

  Marge Piercy

  Slim, Diets

  Marge Piercy (1983). “Stone, paper, knife”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Battle, Mouths

  "Atlantic Game Fishing". Book by S. Kip Farrington Jr., 1937.

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• My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

  John Keats

  Death, Sleep, Eagles

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.178

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• I think all Internet comments should be disengaged. But I kind of live and die by it. It's completely irresistible. It's not like comedy. When I do a podcast or write an episode of TV, I have no feedback for that. That's the only way you know what you're doing is good or bad.

  Harris Wittels

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Catholic, Last Words, After Death

  Last words, 1980.

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• A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Kind, Human Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.238, Vintage

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• There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.

  Robert Graves

  Wind, Sea, Joy

  'The Cool Web' (1927)

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• I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.

  R. B. Kitaj

  Years, Mind, Trying

  Andrew Lambirth, R. B. Kitaj (2004). “Kitaj”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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• Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy, angry and alone. Laid out in front of him, the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle. Round and round. So I changed it.

  Rian Johnson

  Mom, Son, Boys

  "Looper". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

  Rick Yancey

  Failing, Poet, Ends

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Beautiful, Memories, People

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• The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the confidence in tomorrow’s love is also part of today’s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die - I almost believe, rationalist though I am - that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed.

  Isaac Asimov

  Memories, Believe, Love Is

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

  Aleida Guevara

  Men, Example, Able

  "The X-Philes" by Sandy Balfour, www.theguardian.com.

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• A business that doesn’t change is a business that is going to die.

  Frank Perdue

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• Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

  Mata Hari

  Sleep, Doe, Matter

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• My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Home, Grandmother, Government

  "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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• Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Knowing

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• We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

  Matthew Simpson

  Joy, Shining, Comfort

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

  Tom DeLonge

  Thinking, Trying, Figures

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• Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Strong, Eye, Laughing

  "The Gardener". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 27, 1915.

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• If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Light, Forgiving, Earth

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, 1951.

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• Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, World, Ponds

  Benjamin Franklin, “Death Is A Fisherman”

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• Let thy vices die before thee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vices, Thee, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.60, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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