Die Quotes

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

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.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

You'll be free or die!

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.