Die Quotes

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

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 have sworn to die painting.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

I don't die in anything!

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

How young can you die of old age?

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

I'd like to die with my boots on.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.