Top 600 Die Quotes

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.

If you want it, go for it. Take a risk. Don’t always play it safe or you’ll die wondering.

Don’t cling to fame. You’re just borrowing it. It’s like money. You’re going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Death can’t be considered because, if you’re afraid to die, there’s no room in your life to make discoveries.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don’t have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It’s like if you’re going to France for the summer, you’re going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they’re going, or if they’re going anywhere.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

‘They Both Die At The End’ is about coming face to face with your own mortality.

Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

I’m a big fan of talking about God. Whether people believe in God or not, that’s so fascinating. Or where you go when you die is fascinating.

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying… Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing ‘John Tucker Must Die,’ and I have a tattoo on my ankle that’s in Sanskrit that says ‘Fearless.’

We’ve got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, ‘Ah, I am alive still!’ All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.

If you don’t have liberty and self-determination, you’ve got nothing, that’s what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you’re going to die when you’re suffering.

I am going to live and die in the trenches.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I don’t want to die an old lady.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

Women are stronger than men – they do not die of wisdom.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

There are heroes and then there are legends, heroes get remembered but legends never die.

I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don’t have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don’t want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don’t deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Guitar music or rock n’ roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it’ll never go away completely. It can’t die because it’s so fundamentally attractive.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I don’t like shows that are predictable. I like it when you’re shocked and you have no idea who’s about to die.

Skydiving is fascinating, the best part is cruising in the air and realizing that the dice has been thrown and you’re either going to die or not. It’s a very helpless feeling but it’s so freeing.

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

I’ll die young, but it’s like kissing God.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

There’s no doubt I expect to die in prison.

A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

I was born alone, I’m gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I’m my own person, and no two people are the same.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn’t dead, Elvis isn’t dead. Otherwise you don’t have a hero. You can’t kill a hero. That’s why I never let him get older.

I don’t want to die, but I’m not afraid to.

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it’s not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it’s big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit – boom! – and I’m down and out. What a way to die!

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.