Die Quotes

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Live and die in Aristotle's works.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.