All Quotes By Tag: Death

“As human beings, we’re born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.”

“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”

“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable. ”

“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”

“No – no – no!” someone was shouting. “No! Fred! No!”And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred’s eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”

“Men die. It’s practically what they’re for.”

“That is — your friend?” “Philtatos,” Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die – although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.”

“Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn’t dead.”

“Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?”

“I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.”

“The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.”

“Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, ‘How do you bear it?’Finnick looks at me in disbelief. ‘I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.’Something in my expression stops him.’Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself together as it does to fall apart.’Well, he must know. I take a deep breath, forcing myself back into one piece.”

“This is what youth must figure out:Girls, love, and living.The having, the not having,The spending and giving,And the meloncholy time of not knowing.This is what age must learn about:The ABC of dying.The going, yet not going,The loving and leaving,And the unbearable knowing and knowing”

“Nothing remains forever, only thing that remain forever is romantically stupid word forever.”