Die Quotes

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

~ Jerry Garcia

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

~ Ashley Montagu

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

~ David Lynch

I'm not afraid to die.

~ John Wooden

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

~ Stephen Leacock

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

~ Pierre Corneille

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

~ Samuel Butler

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

~ Elbert Hubbard

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

~ Simon Mcburney

We die only once, and for such a long time.

~ Molière

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

~ Albert Ellis

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

~ Willa Cather

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

~ Sam Levenson

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

~ Henry Van Dyke

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

~ Isabelle Eberhardt

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

~ Bob Dylan

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

~ Justin Timberlake

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

~ Bob Marley

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

~ Paul Simon

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

~ Nadia Boulanger

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

~ George Saunders

How young can you die of old age?

~ Steven Wright

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

~ Nicholas D. Kristof

I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.

~ Jim Harrison

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.

~ Paul Robeson

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

~ Dennis Chavez

My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.

~ Miyavi

The learning process continues until the day you die.

~ Kirk Douglas

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

~ Benjamin Franklin

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

~ Jane Siberry

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

~ Robert Falcon Scott

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

~ Andrea Dworkin

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

~ John Derek

Only the young die good.

~ Oliver Herford

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

~ Jack Kevorkian

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

~ Janet Yellen