Best His Death Lines
217 His Death quotes by 189 unique authors
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Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
— Richard Wright
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Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish,…
— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull…
— Mitch Albom
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A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of…
— Suzanne Collins
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Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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I've learned a thing or two from Barrons: Power is sexy. It shapes my spine, infuses my beckoning hand. I have not been devastated by…
— Karen Marie Moning
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I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak…
— Rick Riordan
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I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were…
— Jay-Z
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Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories…
— Tea Obreht
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Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything…
— Blaise Pascal
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It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
— Homer
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For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly…
— Osamu Dazai
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Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last…
— Maurice Sendak
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What is the most appropriate thing to say to a friend who was about to die. He answered:”tell your friend that in his death, a…
— Randy Pausch
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I’m too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth…
— Paul Neilan
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It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken…
— Suzanne Collins
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He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me…
— Suzanne Collins
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The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.…
— Max Lucado
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