Die In Vain Quotes

#1. The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain
The grandest death, to die in vain
for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!

George Eliot

#2. If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

Dennis Chavez

#3. I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.

Jehan Sadat

#4. HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have
to come out number-one man.

Arthur Miller

#5. I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

Joan Baez

#6. For neither do men live nor die in vain. Here

H.G.Wells

#7. So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.

John F. Kennedy

#8. For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

Nigel Hamilton

#9. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

H.G.Wells

#10. Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#11. Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

Albert Camus

#12. Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.

Susan Sontag

#13. Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

Edmund Waller

#14. One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island

C.B. Murphy

#16. All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...

Michael Moorcock

#17. When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end.

Gregory David Roberts

#18. One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain.

Robert Blair

#20. The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple
hate your enemy, know nothing of him.

Mccann Colum

#21. We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Adelle Davis

#22. In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#23. And so we continued to live in fear, hoping that we would not get caught. Fear had become our constant companion at this dreadful Lashkar-e-Taiba camp.

Vivek Pereira

#24. I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world upside down.

Rosie Pugh

#25. Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

Jose Saramago

#26. What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know ... . But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead - yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.

Katherine Mansfield

#27. Our life must once have end; in vain we fly
From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

Lucretius

#28. If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

Andrew Motion

#29. Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

Ahmed Ben Bella

#30. Such is the passing that you must leave,
All men must die, and it is vain to grieve.

Abolqasem Ferdowsi