Top 100 Dying For Quotes
#1. Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.
Robert Breault
#2. There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.'
Thomas More
#3. Today everything is so complex as to be incomprehensible. What sense does it make for men to walk on the moon while other men are waiting on welfare lines, or in Vietnam killing and dying for a corrupt dictatorship in the name of freedom?
Saul D. Alinsky
#4. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain. Alina was the lucky one. Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering.
Karen Marie Moning
#5. It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.
Jamaica Kincaid
#6. You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
#7. Until you find something worth dying for, you're not really living.
Rebecca St. James
#8. Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.
Zig Ziglar
#9. Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
Bruce Springsteen
#10. If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of light.
Victor Hugo
#11. If I die, I want to die for something I believe in and take my word for it, there isn't much out there. But you, Rachel, you're worth dying for.
- Tristan Jacobs
Joni Hahn
#12. You don't understand - there are things worth dying for!
J.K. Rowling
#13. The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.
Rick Warren
#14. Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
Jackson Katz
#15. At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
Hermann Hesse
#16. How many lives do you need to live before you fine someone worth dying for?
Lauren Kate
#17. There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love.
Richard Yates
#18. I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution.
Curt Flood
#19. Hold on to the world we all remember fighting for
There's some strength left in us yet
Hold on to the world we all remember dying for
There's some hope left in it yet
Arise and be
All that you dreamed
Flyleaf
#20. War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his. Gen. George S. Patton
Lee Child
#21. There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well.
Michael Meade
#22. Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.
Arthur M. Jolly
#23. No offense to the other people that we work with, but we spend 14-hour days with each other. You're dying for some sort of new rhythm to play with and another person to have fun with. It's like, "Oh, I can't wait to hang out with Zoe Lister Jones today and not deal with that Jake Johnson."
Max Greenfield
#24. If I've done wrong, I'm dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won't upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!
Emily Bronte
#25. America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for ...
Cindy Sheehan
#26. My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
Victor Cruz
#27. Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.
Ogwo David Emenike
#28. Patriots are poised to live to dying for what they believe in
Chukwuka Amu
#29. There are things worth dying for.
Amy Zhang
#30. Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.
Steve Gleason
#31. Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
Albert Camus
#32. Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
Mick Jagger
#33. Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.
Jodi Picoult
#34. I knew there had to be more to honor than just one's station in life. That's what Sorcha had taught me: that actions meant more than accolades. That honor was something worth fighting for- and dying for- no matter what house you were born into.
Lesley Livingston
#35. Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.
Lisa Gardner
#36. Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#37. One-third of Matthew ... one-third of Mark ... one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are given to [Christ's] death ... Jesus came for the express purpose of dying for sinners. When He left heaven, He knew He was going to the cross.
Billy Graham
#38. Each wave breaking against the cliff would believe it was dying for the good of the sea; it would never occur to it that, like thousands of waves before and after, it had only been brought into being by the wind.
Vasily Grossman
#39. If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#40. I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.
Kami Garcia
#42. I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.
Cassandra Clare
#43. Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell
#44. Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.
Terrence McNally
#45. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
#46. I have what makes you moan. What's going to make those thighs open wide. I've got it right here and you're fucking dying for it.
Tessa Bailey
#47. Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
Jim Butcher
#48. The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer
#49. Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there
are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are
worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that
person isn't fit to live!
Martin Luther King Jr.
#50. Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for ... Be a "game changer" ... The basic tenets of my life philosophy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#51. There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.
Albert Dietrich
#53. But the things that Christ taught are still true, of that I am absolutely certain. Meet me at the end of the world when we stand at the abyss ... Honor is still worth living or dying for; no matter how tired or hurt or frightened you are, face forward and seek the light.
Anne Perry
#54. Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.
Du Mu
#55. What's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?
Donna Tartt
#56. Screw the rules, damn the consequences, and just love. Love until it kills you, because there's nothing better worth dying for.
Karen Amanda Hooper
#57. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love ...
Mother Teresa
#58. Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
Chief Seattle
#59. Jesus and Yillah showed they were superior to the world by dying for it."
"Doesn't sound so superior," Ben commented.
Peter Tieryas
#60. Andrew would say that dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something, Andrew would say, is the hard thing.
Donald Miller
#61. I can do more good outside of prison ... This country is worth dying for.
Edward Snowden
#62. If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. Because apologizing for something you didn't do is better than dying for it!
Rick Riordan
#64. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
C.S. Lewis
#65. Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for.
Levi
Jill Williamson
#66. You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.
Andrew Young
#67. Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.
Adam Michnik
#68. No matter what the bards may say, there's no romance in dying for a man.
Susanna Kearsley
#69. That's a queer sentiment.' William shrugged. 'Dying for your country is a good bit less useful than living for it.
Hilary Rhodes
#70. Is it really worth dying for the person you love?"
[Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, Can you live without her?
Jodi Picoult
#71. Thousands of desires, each worth dying for...
Many of them I have realized...yet I yearn for more...
Why should my killer (lover) be afraid? No one will hold her responsible,
For the blood which will continuously flow through my eyes all my life.
Avinash Advani
#72. Dying for somebody or for something, that was perfectly normal, of course; but the person dying should know, or at least feel sure, that someone knows for whom or for what he is dying; the disfigured face was asking just that; and that was where the haze began.
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
#73. What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
Margaret Atwood
#74. I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.
Woody Norris
#75. You haven't lived life to the fullest until you've found something worth dying for
Luke Edison
#76. Really, really there is no dying for us. Remember?
Art Hochberg
#77. Love may be the one thing in this world today that is not mad, sir. For, what could be more sane than to risk dying for what we can't live without?
Jeffrey Perren
#79. When we fail to believe the truth about who Jesus is and miss the impact of His astounding work in suffering and dying for our sin, it will be impossible to resist the allurement of the gods of this earth as they whisper their promised pleasures to us.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#80. But you could not blame someone for dying. For leaving on purpose, perhaps, as her brother had left her and her parents, but not for dying, the power over which was surely beyond the grasp of any mortal human.
Cassandra Clare
#81. The truth is that each of us fall short of loving unconditionally. We don't love others the way God loves us. Yet Jesus extended perfect love by living and dying for all of our sins. In spite of our failures, weaknesses, and selfishness, He sacrificed His own life so we could have eternal life.
Dana Arcuri
#82. Zarek! I won't leave you here to die. (Astrid)
It's okay, princess. I don't mind dying for you. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman
#85. Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love ... love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too. -Tohrment
J.R. Ward
#87. What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.
Jay Parini
#88. Surely, if we could create the world anew, the practice of organizing our lives around untestable propositions found in ancient literature - to say nothing of killing and dying for them - would be impossible to justify. What stops us from finding it impossible now?
Sam Harris
#91. Hamas does not care about the lives of Palestinians. [They don't] care about the lives of Israelis or Americans. They don't care about their own lives. They consider dying for the sake of their ideology a way of worship.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#92. Yes"
Somehow, I wasn't surprised to hear his low voice. I opened my eyes, and Asher's fierce, unblinking stare held me captive. I couldn't think while trapped by the power of that intent look.
"Yes what?"
"Yes, you're worth dying for.
Corrine Jackson
#93. We can lay down our lives for those we love not by physically dying for them but rather by living for them - giving of our time; always being present in their lives; serving them; being courteous, affectionate, and showing true love for those of our family and to all men - as the Savior taught.
Claudio R.M. Costa
#94. I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
Stephen Malkmus
#95. It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man. - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.
Usher
#96. In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns ... And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing.
Tim O'Brien
#97. He spent three months in a wash of depression and self-pity that bordered the suicidal. But even that solution was denied him by his new found nihilism. If nothing was worth living for it followed , didn't it , that there was nothing worth dying for either.
Clive Barker
#98. No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton Jr.
#99. Earlier I had thought a lot about why it was so extremely unusual for a person to be able to live for an ideal. Now I saw that many people, all in fact, are capable of dying for an ideal. Only, it mustn't be a personal, freely chosen ideal, but one held in common and taken over from other people.
Hermann Hesse
#100. A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels ... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion.
Richard Bach
