Top 100 Die They Quotes
#1. When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It's scientific. That's how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.
Neil Gaiman
#2. The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.
Lily Tomlin
#3. When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
Chris Marker
#4. We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.
H.G.Wells
#5. Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
Barbara Johnson
#6. The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.
Howard Storm
#7. When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?
Haruki Murakami
#8. Things in Arizona don't just die; they bake and fry in the heat until there is nothing left.
Jeffry R. Halverson
#9. We project our feelings onto other people, but there is always a dynamic that creates those inventions. The fantasies are made between people, and the ideas about those people live inside us ... And, even after they die, they are still there. I am made of the dead.
Siri Hustvedt
#10. Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
#11. The sun is setting fast. The colors die. They shift from purple to dried blood, from nacre to bister, from cool dead grays to pigeon shit.
Henry Miller
#12. I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
Andy Warhol
#13. All I want is for someone to understand me before I die. With death staring me in the face, I finally understand the reason novelists write books: before they die they want somebody, somewhere, to understand them.
Natsuo Kirino
#14. They'd come to the Ice Court scurrying like rats. Live or die, they were going out like an army.
Leigh Bardugo
#15. 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
#16. In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
Liza Minnelli
#17. They do not disappear when they die. They leave us their strength.
Heidi R. Kling
#18. When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.
David Christian
#19. Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
David Wilkerson
#20. Old soldiers never die, they write novels.
James Jones
#21. They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. Children are the proof we've been here ... they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else ... Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.
Allison Pearson
#23. C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
Alan Perlis
#24. People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.
Don DeLillo
#25. Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#26. Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.
Douglas Adams
#27. Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide.
Justin Kan
#28. Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
Douglas MacArthur
#29. It's something that this country hasn't had to deal with. But there's going to be a whole new generation that doesn't know their father. It's almost selfish of us to die. They train us as warriors. But they don't teach us how to take the pain away.
Jim Sheeler
#30. Uninsured people don't just slink off into a corner and die. They seek treatment, but usually when it is an emergency, and this will be the most expensive kind of care available.
Kurt Eichenwald
#31. When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love
Lisa See
#32. If they would rather die, ... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Charles Dickens
#34. It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
Roger Maris
#35. Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.
Herbert V. Prochnow
#36. Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.
Rick Riordan
#37. Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.
Seth Godin
#38. I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!
Tyler Perry
#39. Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.
Phyllis Chesler
#40. In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.
Aysha Taryam
#41. Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.
Max Gladstone
#42. One moment people dicide to die, after all what happen, after all their mistakes they just want to die. They don't see a purpose - this isn't a film this is reality my father died!
Deyth Banger
#43. Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.
Caroline Kennedy
#44. Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
Stephen Levine
#45. The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation ... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
Bernard Cornwell
#47. Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
Nate Lowman
#48. Because I knew that racist Negro Archetypes, like Bebe's Kids, don't die. They multiply.
Paul Beatty
#49. It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.
Terry Pratchett
#50. Ruddy hell, when your parents die they move in with you.
David Mitchell
#51. Mothers don't go to heaven when they die. They get special permission from God to stay around a bit longer and watch over their children, no matter what has passed between them in their brief mortal lives.
Elif Shafak
#53. I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.
Andy Warhol
#54. [Judith Shakespeare] lives in you and in me [ ... ] she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.
Virginia Woolf
#55. They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.
Grover Norquist
#56. So you must learn to follow your destiny, whatever it may be, with joy. As flowers grow, they show off their beauty and are appreciated by all; then, after they die, they leave their seeds so that others may continue God's work.
Paulo Coelho
#57. Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.
Frederick Lenz
#58. If Preston Brooks with his attack had brought him near death, was it not his old friend Appleton who had observed, "When good Americans die they go to Paris"?
David McCullough
#60. Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow.
Dan Gemeinhart
#61. You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness.
Joe Haldeman
#62. People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.
Ogden Nash
#63. If you go to Madison Square Garden, you better have your A game ready, because here goes the thing, they love boxing. They either like you, or they don't like you. They're either cheering for you, or they're cheering for you to die ... They want you to kill, or be killed.
Roy Jones Jr.
#64. I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.
Caroline Kennedy
#65. When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.
John Lee Hooker
#66. In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.
Christopher Walken
#67. I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#68. When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
Jorge Luis Borges
#69. Humans are probably the only creatures who know that they will die. They know for certain and yet they keep going. A resilient spirit and a need to survive does not make for cowardice.
Salma to Merrick in Simple Conversation
Sonia Rumzi
#70. Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry
#71. When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
David Strathairn
#72. Even avatars have to desire to be in God in every moment. And when avatars die, they desire with all their being to be united with God. ... .. Look at Ramakrishna.
How much he wept and prayed for the Divine Mother.
Mother Meera
#74. Just give hime five more minutes and he would surely fall into the German gutter and die. They would all let him, and they would all watch.
Then, one human.
Hans Hubermann.
Markus Zusak
#75. Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
Stephen Covey
#76. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized the value of distance, of not losing one's self completely to love.
Caroline Hanson
#77. So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!
Melina Marchetta
#78. Old guns rarely die, they just hang on walls.
A.A. Gill
#79. Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.
William Macneile Dixon
#80. When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.
Rick Majerus
#81. If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games? And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.
Suzanne Collins
#82. Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
Sigmund Freud
#83. Why are you being loud? Is it fun being so loud, this early in the morning? Do you know what happens to loud morning people? They die. They die horrible deaths, mutilated in their sleep and are then buried with their balls in their loud fucking mouths.
Alanea Alder
#84. When I flick through a family album, I see that people don't die, they just become photographs
S.E. Sever
#85. Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope ... hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.
Lewis B. Smedes
#86. Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.
Russell Johnson
#87. For him, death is merely the ultimate frailty. Humans whimper when they die. They claw for life even if there is no hope. He will not. Death is not grander than his pride.
Pierce Brown
#88. What happens after you die?" "Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you.
Louis C.K.
#89. Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.
Byron Katie
#90. So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so.
Mercedes McCambridge
#91. The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
Sharon Stone
#92. When I die, they're going to have to bury me because if they don't, I'll stink up the place.
Rich Mullins
#93. I like to think that birds do not die, they simply fly away to heaven when their time here on earth is up
Ella Clem
#94. They got so accustomed to the false alarms that when she did eventually die, they did not realize it, and she lay there twenty minutes, serene in my embrace, smiling blankly at me.
Darren Shan
#95. And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.
Brian Logan Dales
#96. Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
John Pearson
#97. Clouds buzz by, unaware of the scary world below them. I envy them. I envy the easy way that they live and die. They never have to worry about tomorrow and what horrors or death it might bring.
Dannielle Wicks
#98. Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Joe Gallivan
#99. It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.
Laura Hillenbrand
#100. Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.
Michael Douglas
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