Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.
I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.
You can still die when the sun is shining.
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?
Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other
They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.
After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
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 part of you dies and goes with him. Whenever he goes, you also g. He will not be alone".
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.
she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.
I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
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