Die Quotes
9896 quotes by 4734 authors
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
— Rebecca West
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Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they…
— Nick Hornby
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I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body,…
— Phillip Lopate
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?
— Joanne Greenberg
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I hate myself, and I want to die
— Kurt Cobain
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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the…
— Li-Young Lee
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Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.
— Ricky Gervais
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Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a…
— Brandon Lee
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
— Vittorio Alfieri
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Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well
— Philip Kapleau
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If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too…
— Gus Grissom
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Stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, life taught me to die, so it's not hard to fall when you flow like…
— Damien Rice
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Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the…
— Bill Tilden
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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