Quotes about die
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Douglas Coupland photo
Charles Darwin photo

“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

Source: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter VII: "Instinct", page 244 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=262&itemID=F373&viewtype=image
Source: The Origin of Species

Assata Shakur photo
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“I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.”

Variant: I'm going to bed, where I may die.
Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Mitch Albom photo

“Ash? Get bent and die.”

Daughters of Darkness

Libba Bray photo
Tom Robbins photo

“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

Sara Shepard photo
Rick Riordan photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Steven Wright photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Joseph Heller photo

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”

Source: Catch-22

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Gertrude Stein photo
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“Malicious men may die, but malice never.”

Source: Tartuffe

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“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”

"Deutsches Requiem" as translated by Julian Palley (1958)

Garth Nix photo

“Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”

Variant: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die.
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 343.
Source: Sabriel
Context: For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the Ninth Gate.

“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”

Part 8, Chapter 10 (p. 196)
Source: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)

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Mary Connealy photo

“We're married. I will protect you. I will die for you. Better than that. I will live for you.”

Mary Connealy (1956) Author

Source: Sharpshooter in Petticoats

Groucho Marx photo
Markus Zusak photo
Allen Ginsberg photo
Edna St. Vincent Millay photo
Stephen Fry photo

“Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Erich Fromm photo

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

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4

John F. Kennedy photo
Art Spiegelman photo

“No, darling! To die it's easy… But you have to stuggle for life!”

Art Spiegelman (1948) cartoonist from the United States

Variant: To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
Source: The Complete Maus

Ernest Hemingway photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Bashō Matsuo photo
George Bernard Shaw photo

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy

Guy De Maupassant photo
Kiyohiko Azuma photo
Katherine Mansfield photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”

Source: Hannibal

Rick Riordan photo
John Keats photo

“You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour…”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

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“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Nikki Giovanni photo

“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

Source: The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

Guy De Maupassant photo
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Ernest Hemingway photo

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)

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William Saroyan photo

“Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Statement to the Associated Press, five days before his death. (13 May 1981)

Algernon Charles Swinburne photo

“Today will die tomorrow.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
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“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”

Variant: The gun slipped on Emily's temple, and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.
Source: The Pact

Jim Morrison photo

“You live you die and death not ends it.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: We live, we die
and death not ends it
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it

Seamus Heaney photo

“I shall gain glory or die.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Source: Beowulf

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Jean-Luc Godard photo

“To be immortal and then die”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

Source: Breathless

Joseph Heller photo

“Be glad you're even alive.'
Be furious you're going to die.”

Source: Catch 22

Rick Riordan photo
Charles Baudelaire photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Margaret Cho photo

“I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

And I'm gonna stay here and rock the mike until the next Korean-American, fag hag, shit starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place!
From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

Joyce Carol Oates photo

“Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: Faithless

Jean-Luc Godard photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“some men never
die
and some men never
live

but we're all alive
tonight.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Eddie Izzard photo

“I want to live till I die. No more, no less.”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer
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