“I can't take their pressure
No one cares if you live or die
They just want me gone
They want me gone”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
Lyrics, The Eraser (2006)
“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”
— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“While I live, every criminal must die.”
Pope Sixtus V (1520–1590) pope
Reported in Will and Ariel Durant, Age of Reason Begins: Volume 7 (1961), p. 240.
“When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone.”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Temenidæ Frag. 734
Context: When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber (5 December 1791), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
Variant: The taste of death is on my tongue, I feel something that is not from this world (Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meiner Zunge, ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Welt ist).
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter
"When I'm Gone" http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/when-im-gone.html from Phil Ochs in Concert (1966) <br class="br">Lyrics
“Let us live – we must die.”
Vivamus, moriendum est.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (-54–39 BC) Roman scholar
Book II, Chapter VI; translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 349
Some editions of Seneca prefer the reading Bibamus, moriendum est (Let us drink – we must die).
Controversiae
“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die, so that the country may live.”
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Original French: Je prononce à regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive. <br class="br"> Speech to the National Convention http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/journal_debats/an/1792/convention_1792_12_03.htm on the judgment of Louis XVI (3 December 1792)
“I stay right here and fight it out or die in the attempt.”
Alonzo Cushing (1841–1863) Union Army soldier
Manley, B. (2015). Union Officer to Receive Medal of Honor for Heroics at Gettysburg. Military History, 31(5), 8.
Upon his decision to remain at his position in the face of a 12,500-man Confederate assault.
