“I wonder where we go when we die?”
“…Pittsburgh?”
“You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?”
“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
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“They have never felt pain … We don’t have their connections, but we’re ready to die.”
As quoted in "Protests Urge Resignation of Leaders in Thailand" in The New York Times (15 March 2010).

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

“We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.”
Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

“We’re gonna stay together until we die, I’m sure of it.”
Context: You know something? There's been a lot of rumors lately about a certain band called Queen. The rumors are that... The rumors are that we're gonna split up. What do you think? [audience replies "No!"] [Pointing to his posterior] They're talking from here! [audience replies "Yes"! ] My apologies, but I say what I want. You know what I mean? So forget those rumors. We’re gonna stay together until we die, I’m sure of it. I keep — I must tell you — I keep wanting to leave, but they won’t let me. Also, I suppose we’re not... We're not bad for four aging queens, are we? Really, what do you think?
"Queen: Live at Wembley" (1986), shortly before performing "Who Wants To Live Forever." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GNJ1SQpxFI

“Here we either make Italy, or we die.”
Qui si fa l'Italia o si muore.
To his lieutenant Nino Bixio at the Battle of Calatafimi, 15 May 1860. Quoted in Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Storia dei Mille, ch. Dopo la vittoria.

“I sometimes think we deserve to die, we’re all so goddamned stupid.”
Source: The Forge of God (1987), Chapter 50 (p. 342)

“We weep when we are born, not when we die!”
Source: "The Metempsychosis", The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882), p. 139