Die Quotes

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

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

You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.