Die Quotes

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

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?

Men die but an idea does not.

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

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.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

To retire is to begin to die.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.