Ezra Pound Quotes

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius. His life just burnt out quicker than it should have. And that is unfortunate, but what is more unfortunate is that everybody focuses on the nature of his death as opposed to the nature of his life, which was so much greater and more important.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

…would…before he could in any way benefit his friends or the state, come to an untimely end without doing any good to himself or others.

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

When artists die early, they become idols even more.

My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.

So many people that I've wanted to work with have died. I was so crazy in love with Amy Winehouse. When she died, I felt like I lost my sister all over again. I couldn't stop crying for weeks and weeks! It was horrible! She was so wonderful and so talented.

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

Somebody who should have been born is gone.

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

You die in the middle of your life.