In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.
We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.
You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.
Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk. Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go.
After you die, you wear what you are.
Die before you die, there is no chance after.
Never tell. Not if you love your wife. . . In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die. ' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
Most volcanologists die in bed.
I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.
I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.
. . . the crazy never die.
There's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war more than the combatants. You're much more likely to get accidentally blown up or killed by a death squad than you are to die in a firefight.
I went to the bank and reviewed my savings, I found out I have all the money I'll ever need. If I die tomorrow.
Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering ‘l. ’ Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die
Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.
I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.