Die Quotes

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

You'll be free or die!

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Men die but an idea does not.

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

To retire is to begin to die.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.