I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and…

What if I never stop inventing?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe’s first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic printing.”

— Andrew Marr

“Keep creating new chapters in your personal book and never stop re-inventing and perfecting yourself. Try new things. Pick up new hobbies and books.…

— Suzy Kassem

“And if this is the last time I see you all, don't stop inventing. Don't stop being amazing. Keep G.I.R.L. alive.”

— Jeremy Whitley

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

— Ben Okri

People should stop inventing new things. They might make our lives easier in the short term, but they end up creating stress.

— Michaela Strachan

Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.

— Alan Alda

I could die in this bed with him right now, wrapped in his arms and I would never know that I had died.

— J.A. Redmerski

“I know that I have died before—once in November.”

— Anne Sexton

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I’ll know I died in good health.

— Bum Phillips

“I will never know you, nothing about you, what has died inside you, what has lived invisibly. I am elsewhere now.”

— Aleksandar Hemon

Now the whole world will know that you died scratching my balls.

— James Bond

“After Toby died, I… There’s just no way I can adequately describe the despair. And the worst part? We had to share our agony…

— Marie Force

“People want to know why someone died,” Joan once told me, “so they can distance themselves from it.”

— Joel Drucker

“And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt…

— Libba Bray