Died

Famous quotes containing the word died:

    Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid
    sorrow from mine eyes.
    Why died I not from the womb?
    Bible: Hebrew Job (l. III, 10–11)

    So I may say,
    “I died of living,
    having lived one hour....”
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    These were the sounds that issued from the wigwams of this country before Columbus was born; they have not yet died away; and, with remarkably few exceptions, the language of their forefathers is still copious enough for them. I felt that I stood, or rather lay, as near to the primitive man of America, that night, as any of its discoverers ever did.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)