Top 600 Die Quotes

My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can’t, and I don’t want to.
Steve Harvey
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
Thomas More
My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.
Miyavi
I can always tell if someone’s from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
Junot Diaz
When I die, just keep playing the records.
Jimi Hendrix
There’s an academic tradition called the ‘Last Lecture.’ Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there’s an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn’t hypothetical.
Randy Pausch
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
Dolores Ibarruri
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
Alan Cohen
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn’t know where to die.
Antonio Gramsci
I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern
I can’t find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it’s an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they’re required to not have abortions, could die and could – so I favor a woman’s right to choose.
Alan Dershowitz
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Jessica Savitch
I was hoping I could die of old age in the military, but they wouldnt let me.
Rudy Boesch
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine
I’ve had people say so much, that I’m a fraud. I’ve had people email me and say, ‘You’re going to die.’
Mike Hughes
Mountaineering is over. Alpinism is dead. Maybe its spirit is still alive a little in Britain and America, but it will soon die out.
Reinhold Messner
I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting s

I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
Sojourner Truth
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
Garrett Fort
It is better to die well than to live badly.
Jan Hus
There’s a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There’s jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
Alain de Botton
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell
My audience is going to die before I do.
Sarah Vowell
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
Of course, there are diseases of which people die.
Serge Lang
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de La Fontaine
My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’
Tupac Shakur
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Evelyn Waugh
Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
Russell Hoban
Don’t die old, die empty. That’s the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.
Myles Munroe
Live by publicity, you’ll probably die by publicity.
Russell Baker
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali
If it’s not growing, it’s going to die.
Michael Eisner
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Xenophon
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.
John Updike
You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n’ roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn’t roll. He has got no swing in him.
Joni Mitchell
But I don’t want to die! I have so much to do!
James Franco
Live or die, but don’t poison everything.
Anne Sexton
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
So it’s a majorly important thing for young artists, as well as older artists like myself, to know that not only do we have the right to say no, but if we don’t say no, we’re gonna die.
Beth Hart
Being part of ‘Game of Thrones,’ you’re always expecting your character to die. You’re not mentally preparing yourself for a very long haul.
Michiel Huisman
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash
The music is going to die if you don’t tap into something that people today can relate to.
Robert Glasper
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don’t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

Dead people don’t really die. They live on within you.
Nate Lowman
People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don’t know if that’s true, if that’s some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.
Karl Pilkington
Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.
Richard J. Roberts
Love each other or die.
Mitch Albom
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who’d banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
Billy Joel
I’m not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There’s no closure.
Larry David
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
Vivienne Westwood
I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.
Anne Frank
I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document my stunts and pack my message into a bottle. I thought maybe I could be discovered after I’d died, like Van Gogh.
Steve-O
If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it’ll die because they don’t go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you’ll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you’ll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
Ted Yoho
Well, if you don’t want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won’t die.
Alex Chiu
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock
I want to be all used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer
I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I’m going to the big Dodger in the sky.
Tommy Lasorda
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Xun Kuang
I will lay down and die before I take any drugs.
Tommy Morrison
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire
Drummers are like sharks. They have to move all the time or they die.
Pat Smear
Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.
Safak Pavey
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Erich Fromm
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
Quentin Tarantino
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Joseph P. Kennedy
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
When we finally become total slaves of mobile phones, then maybe theatre will die.
Naseeruddin Shah
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
Elizabeth Bowen
None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that’s what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.
Joni Eareckson Tada
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata