Quotes about die
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“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
“When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.”
Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
Source: Le diable et le bon dieu
Source: The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
“There are some things to die for but none to kill for.”
The Irresistible Revolution (2006)
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Cliff said "damn" for me (I'm going to die). I didn't know he liked me enough to swear.”
Source: Night World, No. 1
Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
Source: Lawe's Justice
“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Source: Witchlight
“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
“You are not my high school crush, idiot.”
“Great. I can die happy, then.”
Source: Glass Houses
Rant in E-Minor (1997)
Variant: The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Beleive or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
“William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.”
Source: Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
“Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.”
Source: Gardens of the Moon
“Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.”
Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time
“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
“Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.”
“I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.”
Source: The Lost Duke of Wyndham
Source: The Darkest Hour
Source: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
Attributed to Eliade in The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom (2011) edited by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, this appears to be a translation of the last line of the poem "The Holy Longing" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which, as translated by Robert Bly reads: And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.
Misattributed
“One day
Time will die
And love will bury it”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Jimmy: When you die, I die
Sora: Wow, that's some serious relationship!”
Source: Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, Vol. 2
“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.”
1960s, Cobo Center speech (1963)
Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver
“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”
Source: Hunger
“where some god pissed a rain of
reason to make things grow
only to die”
"Stairway to Heaven," Thinking in Pictures (1995), p. 202.
Source: Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
Context: Most people don't realize that the slaughter plant is much gentler than nature. Animals in the wild die from starvation, predators, or exposure. If I had a choice, I would rather go through a slaughter system than have my guts ripped out by coyotes or lions while I was still conscious. Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.
Source: The Complete Fairy Tales
“My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.”
Source: Jenna Starborn
Source: The Historian (2005), Ch. 9
Context: There is survival and survival, the historian learns to his grief. The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
Context: My dear and unfortunate successor:
I shall conclude my account as rapidly as possible, since you must draw from it vital information if we are both to — ah, to survive, at least, and to survive in a state of goodness and mercy. There is survival and survival, the historian learns to his grief. The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
"We ReaI CooI" , The Bean Eaters (1960)
The "We"—you're supposed to stop after the "We" and think about their validity, and of course there's no way for you to tell whether it should be said softly or not, I suppose, but I say it rather softly because I want to represent their basic uncertainty, which they don't bother to question every day, of course.
"An Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks", Contemporary Literature 11:1 (Winter 1970)
The WEs in "We Real Cool" are tiny, wispy, weakly argumentative "Kilroy-is-here" announcements. The boys have no accented sense of themselves, yet they are aware of a semi-defined personal importance. Say the "We" softly.
Report from Part One (1972)
Source: Selected Poems
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.”
Stray reflections http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/strayreflections/index.htm
Source: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Source: Froi of the Exiles
“the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past to die”
“We die only once, and for such a long time!”
On ne meurt qu'une fois; et c'est pour si longtemps!
Le Dépit Amoureux (1656), Act V, sc. iii
“Live as a villain, die as a hero”
Source: Wall and Piece
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
“The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.”
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”
“I was going to die and it was taking forever.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Source: White Is for Magic