Died Quotes · Page 27

I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

— Michael R. Burch

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall…

— Orson Welles

That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was…

— Cate Blanchett

Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,…

— Maximilien Robespierre

Amy Sedaris [in the Ghost Team] plays a Miss Cleo-esque character - Miss Cleo just died, so that's kind of timely -…

— David Krumholtz

O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

— William Butler Yeats

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and…

— Rosie Batty

My mother died on my birthday.

— Shannon Briggs

When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that…

— Lemmy Kilmister

When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.

— Crystal Gayle

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted…

— Gustav Mahler

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution,…

— Walt Whitman

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of…

— John Lydon

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and…

— Thomas Sydenham

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.

— Warsan Shire

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a…

— Michael Stipe

My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and…

— Anne Waldman

Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice…

— George W. Bush

Faith is not our saviour. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on Golgotha for us. It was…

— Horatius Bonar

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is…

— Max Beerbohm

When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It…

— John Travolta

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

— Paul Simon