Died

Famous quotes containing the word died:

“He was laughing when your father found him. He died laughing—in a strait-jacket.”
—John L. Balderston (1899–1954)

“God is indeed dead.
He died of self-horror
when He saw the creature He had made
in His own image.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)

“These, and such as these, must be our antiquities, for lack of human vestiges. The monuments of heroes and the temples of the gods which may once have stood on the banks of this river are now, at any rate, returned to dust and primitive soil. The murmur of unchronicled nations has died away along these shores, and once more Lowell and Manchester are on the trail of the Indian.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)