Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Better to suffer than to die.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

There's worse things in life than death.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

No Victory Without Suffering

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

My life is so full of sacrifices.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

Blood and death. That moves me.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.