Die A Hero Quotes

#1. Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Harvey Dent

#2. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian.

Harvey Dent

#3. Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.

Christopher J. Nolan

#4. The Politician's goal is to build a fortune, ours is to build our homeland flowering and strong. For her we will work and we will build. For her we will make each Romanian a hero, ready to fight, ready to sacrifice, ready to die.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#5. One need not fight every battle, or die in the struggle, to be a hero.

Richard Paul Evans

#6. See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Mickey Spillane

#7. Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated.

David Guterson

#8. Living's a risk, Aza," she says sharply. "Heroes die young. Would you choose to be less than a hero? Here, the sky will light with fire for you. Our funerals are their sunsets.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#9. Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

Alexander Lowen

#10. This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Will Rogers

#11. Live as a villain, die as a hero

Banksy

#12. Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#13. I Spy with my little eye a hero's heart, a heart that beats not for itself but for all humanity."
"I'M NOT BEING MODEST. I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO DIE," Ben exclaims.

John Green

#14. If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

Velupillai Prabhakaran

#15. I'm asking you to make an adult decision. Are you ready to die, maybe alone, far from home, with no one even knowing what a hero you were? I can't even promise that your lives or your deaths will accomplish victory - Ironfist, p156

Brent Weeks

#16. When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Tecumseh

#17. Would you rather die like a hero or live like a coward?

Kate Lord Brown

#18. If to get to the finish line the hero must walk over a sea of bodies, then so be it. He can die at said line, but he's got to get there.

Thomas C. Foster

#19. Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.

Jonathan Maberry

#20. If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Marilyn Manson

#21. Help us, Juli-wan Kenobi, you're our only hope."
For a moment, that almost, almost made Julius feel like a hero. And then he remembered. "Doesn't Obi-Wan die in that movie?

Rachel Aaron

#22. Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know now that when I die, I will live on. That which is important will live on. This is my Legacy; and by the grace of the gods, I am not alone.

R.A. Salvatore

#23. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

Neil Gaiman

#24. Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.

Rick Riordan

#25. It is always better to die like a hero than live like a coward.

Folami Morris

#26. I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

Johnny Depp

#27. He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

Mario Puzo

#28. There are no heroes in a world where heroes can't die.

Travis Beacham

#29. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

Aaron Sorkin

#30. You would think that a man who's spent as much time in the theater as I have would know when the proper time came for the hero to die-if he was to be a hero. I missed my cue for the great suicide scene

Kurt Vonnegut

#31. Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

#32. I don't really have parents. I have parasitic ancestors who refuse to die."
-Halcyon Smith (Hero is a Man)

Nix Whittaker

#33. So die as though your funeral
Ushered you through the doors that led
Into a stately banquet hall
Where heroes banqueted.

Alan Seeger