Die Quotes
9896 quotes by 4734 authors
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In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early…
— Benjamin E. Mays
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Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has…
— Greta Christina
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In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.
— Gregory Benford
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Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Love wasn't a happening one decided on---to indulge or not, to partake or not. To feel or not. When it came, when it struck, the…
— Stephanie Laurens
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Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.
— John Stossel
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The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold…
— Steven Erikson
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Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived…
— Steven Erikson
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If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will…
— Alcee Hastings
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It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.
— Sam Cooke
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Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!
— Michael Badnarik
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I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.
— Mort Sahl
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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical…
— Pierre de Coubertin
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The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These…
— Francois Fenelon
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When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are…
— Clarence Darrow
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We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to…
— Clarence Darrow
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For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on,…
— Edward Kennedy
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