Die Quotes
9896 quotes by 5080 authors
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
— Thomas Pynchon
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good…
— Edward Abbey
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If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
— Edward Abbey
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A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where…
— Edward Abbey
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It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any…
— George Washington
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O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my…
— George Washington
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I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.
— Shania Twain
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If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.
— Terry Pratchett
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I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.
— Bobby Sands
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All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy.…
— Bobby Sands
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I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I…
— Woody Allen
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The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
— Steve Earle
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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps…
— John Milton
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It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.
— Lana Del Rey
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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going…
— Lana Del Rey
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Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd…
— Mohsin Hamid
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What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it?…
— Abraham Maslow
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