Die Quotes

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

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

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

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.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

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.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.