Die Quotes

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

~ Curtis Sliwa

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

~ Thomas More

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

~ Joan Of Arc

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

~ Russell Hoban

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

~ Chris Hardwick

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

~ Michael Landon

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

~ Natalie Portman

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

~ Helen Hayes

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.

~ Howard Dean

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

~ Bertrand Russell

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

~ Thomas Carlyle

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

~ Chief Seattle

All great empires die from within.

~ Terry Bradshaw

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

~ Homer

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

~ Mark Twain

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I really like action movies. The 'Die Hard' franchise. And the 'Bourne' movies.

~ Alexa Chung

I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

~ Talulah Riley

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

~ Jack Bowman

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

~ Tony Benn

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

~ Johnny Carson

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

~ Joseph P. Kennedy

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

~ Lenny Bruce

People can die of mere imagination.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

~ Mikhail Kalashnikov

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

~ Pope Francis

Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

~ Flume

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

~ Henny Youngman

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

~ Pablo Picasso

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

~ Terry Pratchett

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

~ River Phoenix

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

~ John Lennon

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

~ James Wolfe

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

~ George Whitefield

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

~ Bob Dylan

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

~ Chester A. Arthur