Quote by

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

The old man smiled. ‘I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.
– Willa Cather

Related Quotes:

  1. The old man smiled. ‘I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived. – Willa Cather
  2. Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister. – Laurell K Hamilton
  3. It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? – Willa Cather
  4. The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. – Willa Cather
  5. It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain. – Willa Cather
  6. There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather
  7. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. – Willa Cather
  8. He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer. – Willa Cather
  9. Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness. – Willa Cather
  10. Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer. – Willa Cather
  11. It’s by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another. – Willa Cather
  12. Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger. – Willa Cather
  13. Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. – Willa Cather
  14. Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them. – Willa Cather
  15. Prayers said by good people are always good prayers – Willa Cather
  16. [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. – Elizabeth I
  17. Love in a night shall live and die,Love in a day shall wing and fly;Love in the Spring shall last an hour,Easily fade a spring-tide flower. – Aleister Crowley
  18. Cold be night, cold be heart;I shall forever sit in dark, Until one day ride at FlightAgainst armies of Thalorion For last fight-¦. – MJ Chrisman
  19. Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it. – Shannon A Thompson
  20. Accept to die before you live; you shall live free, then accept to live before you die, you shall have a beautiful life – Marcus L Lukusa
  21. Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked – Kat Howard
  22. How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? – John F Kerry
  23. Tired of cold callers asking to speak to the ‘man in the house’, now I put them on to my 6-year old son… he sings them ‘Sexy and I Know It’. – Laura Bates
  24. Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot. – Nicholas Sparks
  25. Men’s freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman. – Shan Sa
  26. Love every one as you love your little daughter and son, because everybody is somebody’s daughter and son. – Debasish Mridha
  27. I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother. – Ruth Ahmed
  28. The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite. – Thich Nhat Hanh
  29. Revenge hardly mends anything. The son of a bitch you want to crush does not exist. The son of a bitch is your own self. – EE Giorgi
  30. Joseph lost his son and Christ. (Joseph a perdu РSon fils et J̩sus.) РCharles de Leusse
  31. We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. – Anton Chekhov
  32. I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I’ll be free. – Barry Webster
  33. And when the world shall listenAnd when the world shall seeAnd when the world remembersThat world shall cease to be. – Miraak
  34. Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  35. And there shall come a kingdom in which the lion shall lie down with the lamb. Unfortunately for the lamb it shall be inside the lion! – Greg Curtis
  36. We avoid risks in life only to die, and end up facing the greatest risk which is having lived life risking nothing at all. – Chinonye J Chidolue
  37. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. – Edna St Vincent Millay
  38. I shall write peace upon your wings,and you shall fly around the worldso that children will no longer haveto die this way. – Teshima Yusuke
  39. Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims. – Elisabeth Elliot
  40. Don’t forget: Without fuel, a fire grows cold-”and without the -œfuel- of the Bible, prayer, and Christian fellowship, our faith grows cold. – Billy Graham

More Quotes

, , , , , , ,