Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
I’ve never understood the ‘things to do before you die’ idea. If I was ill, I’d be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.
I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.
To retire is to begin to die.
When I die I want to go to Vogue.
The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.
The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was… good.
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
When I die, I don’t want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that’s what happened yesterday.
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand – what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.
I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow’s footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
When I started out in independent films in the early ’70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn’t about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You’d die before you’d be bought.
Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.
Your body has space within you that cannot die.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
Life is temporary. We die one day. Live it up!
As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
You don’t have to be a wreck. You don’t have to be sick. One’s aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.
I’m not a president. They love me. All my people are with me; they love me all. They will die to protect me, my people.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
I wanna live ’til I die, no more, no less.
I will keep painting until I die.
Discrimination – in any form – is unacceptable and runs contrary to New Hampshire’s Live Free or Die Spirit.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
I just don’t want to die without a few scars.
We have proclaimed to the world our determination ‘to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.’ We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.
When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.
What’s the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.
From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It’s totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don’t think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
I die really well, by the way. It’s one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.
You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.
Religions die slowly.
The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.
I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn’t going to die.
To die is as if one’s eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.
I’m a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man’s world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
I was born Roman, and I’ll die Roman. I’ll never leave this team or my city.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
