Top 100 Dies Quotes
#1. Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
Brother Lawrence
#2. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.
Jonathan Tropper
#4. Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
Elbert Hubbard
#5. When a man dies, his death dies with him.
Marty Rubin
#6. My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.
Mark Twain
#7. It's morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby's born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song
Jon Bon Jovi
#8. Everyone dies, but in the end it comes down to what you are willing to die for, Alexandria.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#9. It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
Learned Hand
#10. A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.
Chris Crutcher
#11. You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
J.P. Donleavy
#12. I'm tired of being responsible for 203 lives, and I'm tired of deciding which mission is too risky and which isn't, and who's going on the landing party and who doesn't ... and who lives, and who dies.
Christopher Pike
#13. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.
Lao-Tzu
#15. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with Time!
Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
#16. Love, like energy, never dies. You lose people only in the moment. But time is a long road that circles back. At some point the missing turns into love and returns.
M.J. Rose
#17. When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#20. We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for that we have something to live for.
Dwight Longenecker
#21. I thought not only am I going to die, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever
Lara Logan
#22. You 'mustn't' nothing in your life. I don't 'must' nothing in the life, just die. It's important, yeah, but I have also a future in front of me.
Peter Sagan
#24. There's extra suffering when someone you love dies by their own hand. The ones left breathing got to find their own way to survive and make it through living still.
Sandi Morgan Denkers
#25. The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
Henry Miller
#26. Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#28. Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.
Mallory Ortberg
#29. If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
George R R Martin
#30. This fact provides a rebuttal to the argument "What if a young woman aborts a baby who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer?" A rejoinder is, "What if a young woman who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer dies in childbirth?
Michael Shermer
#31. The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
Henry David Thoreau
#32. Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.
Gregory Maguire
#33. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.
Hesiod
#34. A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
Orson Welles
#35. I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.
Muhammad Ali
#36. Love never dies, it become the wealth of the universe when we die.
Debasish Mridha
#37. The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock Ellis
#38. At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.
Vasily Grossman
#39. Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.
Nancy E. Turner
#40. On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
Seneca The Younger
#41. One simply goes around doing egoism and then ultimately he ends up on the wood of the funeral pyre; such is the pitiful state. And if one is a very good person, he will be cremated with sandalwood. But it is all wood in the end. The true victor is the one who never dies.
Dada Bhagwan
#42. Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
Jean Cocteau
#44. Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off ...
Jenna Blum
#45. I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
Muhammad Ali
#46. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins
#47. Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.
V.C. Andrews
#48. Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
Pol Pot
#49. Ye Noble men of Honor know this ... the voice of love never dies, Hope be its companion that rides upon the rays of the SUN by day and the MOON by night and it says hold on to me as we wait for him to arrive ... that be LOVE.
Tonny K. Brown
#50. Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
#51. I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it ...
Chico Xavier
#53. When the family dies, the nation follows ...
Mark Steyn
#54. In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
Pablo Neruda
#55. When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?
Susan Estrich
#56. Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?
Sonia Sotomayor
#57. American youth is looking for a reason to die.
Jerry Rubin
#58. If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.
Yoshida Shoin
#59. Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict
#60. A star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.
Gloria Naylor
#61. A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.
Pascal Mercier
#62. The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.
Elinor Wylie
#63. Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert.
Anne Carson
#64. When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.
Patricia Ryan
#65. But then all of all a sudden the breath is kicked out of me and I'm shoved onto the cold hard concrete floor of my life now, because I remember I can't run home after school and tell Bails about a new boy in band. My sister dies over and over again, all day long.
Jandy Nelson
#66. A coward can die many times, but love can only die once.
Kim Hyun-joong
#67. Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up ... there are too many people.
Doug Stanhope
#68. If you have to say something, you have to say it now. And now more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it.
Cecelia Ahern
#70. Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?
Ian McEwan
#71. Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing ... because music is everything.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#72. Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.
William Shakespeare
#73. When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#74. Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.
Soheir Khashoggi
#75. I love sad stories," said Enoch. "Especially ones where princesses get eaten by dragons and everyone dies in the end.
Ransom Riggs
#76. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
David Levithan
#77. In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Boris Pasternak
#78. The only thing worse than feeling that you are going to die is the realization that you probably won't.
Linda Greenlaw
#79. Jenks kept me alive for two years through two death threats, a crazy banshee, and at least two serial killers. Its about time I return the favor! And if I can't, then I can sit by his bed and hold his hand as he dies, 'cause I've had plenty of practice doing that, too!
Kim Harrison
#80. The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.
Andrew Carnegie
#81. Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
Alexander Pope
#82. I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
Daniel Barenboim
#83. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.
Douglas Horton
#84. To live sober is ... to die countless times!
Veena Malik
#85. It's odd how when one of us dies we all come together as one. Even if we don't know each other or if we hate each other we come together for that one day.
Abbi Glines
#86. Just because someone you loved dies, doesn't mean that your world ends as well.
Kimberly Lauren
#88. You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.
Huey Newton
#89. When two people are free to disagree, they are free to love. When they are not free, they live in fear, and love dies.
Henry Cloud
#90. On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.
ASAP Rocky
#91. What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.
Dinaw Mengestu
#92. To exhaustion and beyond they prayed, to that glittering place where the flesh dies and is born again, where all is agony, and finally, just as La Inca was feeling her spirit begin to loose itself from its earthly pinions, just as the circle began to dissolve
Junot Diaz
#93. There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
James Runcie
#94. All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
William Pepper
#95. Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.
Nic Pizzolatto
#96. The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
[Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#97. And when you give up your dreams, an important part of who you are dies with them, and so does that which makes you unique.
Jeff O'Leary
#98. In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.
Robert Aris Willmott
#99. That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die.
Joffrey Lupul
#100. To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice.
Randy Alcorn
