Tim O'Brien Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Hurt, Thinking

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Hurt, Writing

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns. . . . And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing.

  Tim O'Brien

  Love, Doubt, Dying

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