18 Quotes from The Man Who Died Twice book by Richard Osman
Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 18 quotes from The Man Who Died Twice book by Richard Osman that I underlined while reading the book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Quotes on Getting Older
- Oh, my dear, as you get older you'll realize very few things are impossible.
- It is fine to say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger". It is admirable. But it no longer applies when you're eighty. When you are eighty whatever doesn't kill you just ushers you through the next door, and the next door and the next, and all of these doors lock behind you. No bouncing back. The gravitational pull of youth disappears, and you just float up and up.
More Quotes
- Small dogs are like small men: always got a point to prove. Yapping it up, barking at cars.
- You must never die before your dog. You must die before your children, of course, because you have taught them to live without you. But not your dog. You teach your dog only to live with you.
- Time flies when you are living it.
- I honestly don't mind you being anxious, I don't mind you being conflicted, I don't even mind you being arty, but I absolutely won't tolerate you being boring, because I can tell you are not a boring human being.
- The brain is tremendously clever. Your foot was your foot and would remain your foot through thick and thin. But the brain changes, in form and in function.
- Revenge is not a straight line, it's a circle. It's a grenade that goes off while you're still in the room, and you can't help but be caught in the blast.
- Sometimes you had to do things differently if you wanted to grow as a human being.
- We are all gone in the blink of an eye, and there is nothing to do but live while you're waiting. Cause trouble, play chess, whatever suits you.
- I am learning that it is important to stop sometimes, and just have a drink and a gossip with friends, even as corpses start to pile up around you.
- Money is a trap, for sure. But, there are worse traps you could find yourself in.
- Well, let's take it one day at a time, shall we? I enjoyed yesterday, I'm having fun today, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
- I'm a romantic, and I always have high hopes. It's much more fun that way.
- Words are very important, most people don't know that, and the more specific a word is, the better it is.
- If one is never lost in life, then clearly one has never travelled anywhere interesting.
- There are certain steps you take in life that you can't easily turn back from. So take them with care. You don't want to make a fool of yourself.
- The secret of life is death. Everything is about death, you see. In essence. Our existence only makes sense because of it; it provides meaning to our narrative. Our direction of travel is always towards it. Our behaviour is either because we fear it, or because we choose to deny it.