e. e. cummings Quotes

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

If you die, you're not a failure.

I shall not altogether die.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

To have died once is enough.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

I can't die but once.

I don't want to die.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

There are no heroes in a world where heroes can’t die.

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

To conquer death you only have to die.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.