Best twenties & dies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.”

Men Humanity Dies Girl Hours Four Week Husband Kissing Six Twenties Males Hopeless One Man Conception Lightning Cheerful Vivid Blast Drunkards Delirium Whisky Anathema Delirium Tremens

Book:Septimus

Source: Septimus

“This is our mission at home, to approach these future decisions without hesitation, to do our duty and to remain strong. We know the enemy, we have called him by name for the last twenty years: he is the World Jew. And we know that the Jew must die.”

Knows World Years Home Lasts Dies Names Strong Decision Enemy Duty Approach Twenties Jew Missions Hesitation Future Decisions

Author:Julius Streicher

“Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.”

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“When I was very young, I started to make friends with much, much older people. So when I was twenty, my friends were fifty, and I never really went through forty because I would watch them die and I would feel younger. So you make friends with older people and you will always feel young no matter what.”

People Feels Matter Young Dies Watches My Friends Twenties No Matter What Fifty Forty Older People

Author:Judd Apatow

“It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Film Dies Steps Fans Minutes Horror Twenties Scripts Obvious Factors Scare Rubbish Horror Film Horror Fans

Author:Danny Dyer

“Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.”

Want Dies Five Twenties Lists Purses Twenty Five Wallets

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who believe in the ideal today may die: but what is a man in the development of a people, of mankind.”

People Men Years Believe May Ideas Today Dies Mankind Development Hundred Ideals Twenties Socialist Forerunners

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.”

Years Doe Two Ideas Soul Suffering Dies Fighting Taken Let Me Twenties Mad Intense Two Years Atman Years Of Life

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.”

“You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.”

Dies Water Tree Twenties Plant Nineteen Coconuts

Author:Randall Robinson

“What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.”

Knows Persons Age Dies Five Drug Behavior Twenties Suicide Accidents Unhappiness Odds Reckless Twenty Five Overdose Leukemia

Book:Limitations

Source: Limitations

“I killed Freddie the vamp like twenty times, but he wouldn't die. --Natalya Shonski”

Dies Twenties Vamp

Author:Christine Feehan

“Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.”

“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”

Ifs Knows Life Two Dies Grows Growth Learning Positive Negative Twenties Aging Ignorant Decay Better Life Twenty Two

Author:Mitch Albom

“At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.”

Dies Twenties Bones Get Back

Book:Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Source: Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath

“A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.”

Knows Mind Humans Body Age Dies Waiting Human Beings Known Five Months Personality Female Twenties Posts Thirty Twelve Defects Femininity Mind And Body Twenty Five Shackles Ovaries

Author:Florence King

“Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?”

Remember Dies Minutes Twenties Minivans

Author:John Green

“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.”

People Thinking Want Ends Body Young Dies Next Forget One Day Solitude Twenties Decline Next Day Old People Eighty Rotten Close To Death

Author:Muriel Barbery

“In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn’t it? (Fang)”

Firsts Age Young Dies Dark Century Twenties Good Things Incapable Dark Ages Fangs Birthing

Book:Born of Ice

Source: Born of Ice

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Day”

Mean Moments Dies Hours Four One Day Twenties Each Day Live In The Moment One Day At A Time

Author:Marie Lu

“Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?”

Ifs Whole Might Would Be Life Is Dies Bits Born Saws Streets Strange Balance Promise Standing Twenties Fifty Afternoon Advise Convenient Twenty One Standing There Helen Main Street Promise Me

Author:Ray Bradbury

“There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever." Octavian read the scroll. "This says, 'Go to Alaska. Find Thanatos and free him. Come back by sundown on June twenty-fourth or die'." "Yes," Mars said. "Is that not clear?" "Well, my lord...usually prophecies are unclear. They're wrapped in riddles. They rhyme, and..." Mars casually popped another grenade off his belt. "Yes?" "The prophecy is clear!" Octavian announced. "A quest!”

Writing Wells Said Book Dies Lord Clear Twenties Add Finished Fourth Quests Mars Prophecy Rhyme Belts June Alaska Riddle Grenade Unclear Thanatos Engrave Octavian

Author:Rick Riordan

“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.”

Years Two Lying Dies Knowing Hundred Twenties Safety Deceit Sheep Fence Cages Twenty Two Knowing The Truth

Book:Shadowfever: Fever Series

Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series

“You have twenty-four hours, horseguy, to kill your betrayer any way you see fit and to take your revenge. Make them count. Oh, and know that you can’t let daylight touch you. If you do…Well, you don’t want to die without your soul. It’s highly unpleasant. Sometime in the next few days, a man named Acheron Parthenopaeus will find you and teach you everything you need to know about being a Dark-Hunter. If you’re smart, you’ll listen to him. Welcome to the madness.” – Artemis”

Ifs Knows Men Way Want Needs Wells Soul Dies Next Hours Dark Teach Four Fit Smart Madness Twenties Revenge Welcome Your Soul Hunters Daylight Wanting To Die Artemis Dark Hunter

Book:Retribution

Source: Retribution

“How did the hearing go?” she asked. “We won, sort of,” Kaldar said. “We die at dawn.” “The court gave the Sheeriles twenty-four hours,” William corrected. “Yes, but ‘we die at dawn the day after tomorrow’ doesn’t sound nearly as dramatic.” “Does it have to be dramatic all the time?” Catherine murmured. “Of course. Everyone has a talent. Yours is crocheting and mine is making melodramatic statements.”

Doe Said Dies Courses Sound Hours Four Talent Mines Tomorrow Twenties Court Hearing Statements Dawn Dramatic

Author:Ilona Andrews

“That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.”

People World Littles Two Dies Loses Grief Hundred Tragedy Twenties Math Good People Begets Multiplication

Book:Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel

Source: Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel

“She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.”

Firsts Kind Persons Dies Winning Grows Growing Up Twenties Seven Prize Nobel Nobel Prize Hendrix

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.”

“Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.”

Men Dream Age Dies Five Inspirational Life Twenties Necks Twenty Five Stop Dreaming

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human beings can do to themselves in the way of being led astray by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions. These are examples of pathological science. These are things that attracted a great deal of attention. Usually hundreds of papers have been published upon them. Sometimes they have lasted for fifteen or twenty years and then they gradually die away.”

“I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.”

Years Made Stories Remember Dies Reading Five Advice Twenties Critics Bottom Impression Drunk Rejection Five Years Editors Reviews Good Advice Twenty Five Reviewers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.”

May Long Age Young Spirit Dies Youth Optimism Twenties Down And Aging Wave Snow Ice Covered Pessimism Cynicism Eighty There Is Hope Die Young

Author:Samuel Ullman

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