DYING in Classic Quotes

1  Ten of them died in car wrecks.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

2  I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

3  The fireworks died in the parlor behind Mildred.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

4  "It's not just the woman that died," said Montag.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

5  When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

6  Montag lay watching the dead-alive thing fiddle the air and die.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

7  And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

8  And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for all the things he did.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

9  If the drones die, I'm still safe at home, tending my fright with a maximum of comfort and a minimum of chance.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

10  There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

11  He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

12  The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

13  So, with the feeling of a man who will die in the next hour for lack of air, he felt his way toward his open, separate, and therefore cold bed.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

14  Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

15  He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

16  How strange, strange, to want to die so much that you let a man walk around armed and then instead of shutting up and staying alive, you go on yelling at people and making fun of them until you get them mad, and then.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

17  For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander