Quotes about die
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Charlaine Harris photo
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“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

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“Still, in the end, we all die just the same.”

Source: Hear the Wind Sing

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“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.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

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“this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

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Lev Grossman photo
Robert Jordan photo
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Cassandra Clare photo
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Stephen King photo

“no one dies happy, you can only die well”

Source: Different Seasons

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Chuck Palahniuk photo

“We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.”

Source: Choke

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Bill Hicks photo

“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? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

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.

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“William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.”

Marc Norman (1941) Screenwriter

Source: Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay

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“I didn't think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Lost Duke of Wyndham

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“I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

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“As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth.”

Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher

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

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James Patterson photo
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Richard Brautigan photo

“One day
Time will die
And love will bury it”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
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Miranda July photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“Jimmy: When you die, I die
Sora: Wow, that's some serious relationship!”

Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist

Source: Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, Vol. 2

Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Cobo Center speech (1963)

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“You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

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“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”

Source: Hunger

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“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.”

Temple Grandin (1947) USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist

"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.

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Sharon Shinn photo

“My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.”

Sharon Shinn (1957) American science fiction writer

Source: Jenna Starborn

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
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“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.”

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.

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“We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.”

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer

"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

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“Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

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“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.”

Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement

Stray reflections http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/strayreflections/index.htm

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Stephen Sondheim photo

“They all deserve to die.
Even you, Mrs. Lovett
Even I.

Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death would be relief.”

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

Source: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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“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”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Source: Wall and Piece

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Will Rogers photo

“Lord, let me live until I die.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
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Charles Bukowski photo

“Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.”

Source: Hollywood

Miranda July photo

“I was going to die and it was taking forever.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You