Live Then Die Quotes

#1. Live while you live, then die and be done with.

John Gunther

#2. I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that's the lot. There's no mercy in things. There's not even a Great Beyond. There's nothing.

John Fowles

#3. "Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"
"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."
"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

Hans Christian Andersen

#4. As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

Jessica Jackley

#5. I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett

#6. Nobody stops to think about the world anymore. We live in a world where they make
children pay to see the fish eat. Nowadays even fish are exploited, she thought. Exploited, and then poisoned. The ocean out there is filling up with poison. The fish will die too

Julian Barnes

#7. Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

Rajneesh

#8. When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

Martin Luther

#9. Always knowing you're going to die
And until then knowing you've got to live.

Henry Rollins

#10. Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.

Ali Akbar Khan

#11. The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.

Daniel Woodrell

#12. Do it. Before they send those mutts back or something. I don't want to die like Cato," he says.
"Then you shoot me," I say furiously, shoving the weapons back at him. "You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

Suzanne Collins

#13. Then when I am sad and understand nothing anymore, I say to myself that it's better to die while you still want to live, than to die and want to die.

Erich Maria Remarque

#14. The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.

Steven Erikson

#15. I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I want to spend my time learning what goes into a whole and happy life, then building that life the best I can.

Steve Goodier

#16. If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the valley. When they're content to live with death, to become what the men on the hills want them to be, then Sarajevo will die.

Steven Galloway

#17. Is it truly possible to steal a life, if ... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.

Ki Longfellow

#18. People only really live when they're about to die," he said. "Before then it's all a waste. You don't appreciate how good it is until you're really in the shit.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#19. The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Mary J. Blige

#21. I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

M. Carey Thomas

#22. You told us over and over that you don't think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you'd probably die before you'd think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right?
Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#23. You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!

Stephen Richards

#24. That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!!

Hiro Mashima

#25. Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.

Richard Flanagan

#27. I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

Zendaya

#28. We die so others can be born
We age so others can be young
The point of life is live,
Love if you can
Then pass it on.

Kate Tempest

#29. People live, and then they die. And as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.

Lee Child

#30. Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.

William Wake

#31. Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

Erwin McManus

#32. Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

Janet Morris

#33. If you don't have your own principals that you live and die by, then you will always be worried about what other people think

Lance Wallnau

#34. Treasure the pain; treasure what you have with her, including the fear. Treasure what you may have, including the failure. Treasure it because if we don't live this life, if we don't live it to the fullest year after year and century after century, well, then, we die.

Anne Rice

#35. If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

Abraham Lincoln

#36. If to live is to die, then to die is to live on.

Palle Oswald

#37. If you really want to be secure, you will have to live a life of insecurity. If you really want to be alive, you will have to be ready to die at any moment. This is the illogic of life! If you want to be authentically true, then you will have to risk. Repression is a way to avoid the risk. For

Osho

#38. Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Andre Maurois

#39. Born in throes, 't is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then!

Herman Melville

#40. Accept to die before you live; you shall live free, then accept to live before you die, you shall have a beautiful life

Marcus L. Lukusa

#41. When I get lemon juice in a cut..it hurts..but then I remember all who would die for that lemon I am quiet and take the pain for what it is ...
because that is what it is to live.

Shawna Mae Lewis

#42. If you're not choosing to live life to the fullest each and every day, then you're allowing yourself to die, one missed moment at a time. I

Rachael Brownell

#43. No one has ever doubted you would die for those you love ... the question then becomes would you live?

Elizabeth Isaacs

#44. Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.

Frederick Lenz

#45. My mother's dying and may not live through the week. So, yes, I'd rather die trying to save her than live with the guilt of wondering if I could have. If you can't understand caring that much for someone you love then you're one coldhearted bastard. (Abbie)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#46. If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight.

Emilie Autumn

#47. Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.

Tarryn Fisher

#48. Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.

Mark Twain

#49. I'm going to live to be twenty-five,' she said, 'then die.

Haruki Murakami

#50. Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

G.K. Chesterton

#51. You live, you die, they throw you on the compost heap. Then you live again, without the inconvenience of consciousness.

Joe Haldeman

#52. It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Edna Ferber

#53. I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it

Kendrick Lamar

#54. if you want to live then you must prepare to die

Vinod

#55. He was saying, fulfill yourself, realize your potential, live boldly and fully. Then, and only then, die without regret.

Irvin D. Yalom

#56. We don't live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty, or a hundred years. If not, then we're just taking up space and wasting time until we die.

Christina Daley

#57. I sing and drink,
giving no thought to death;
with arms outspread
I fall upon the grass,
and if, in this wide world, I come to die,
then it's certain to be
from sheer joy that I live.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#58. You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#59. To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg

#60. Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Red Cloud

#61. THE BASIC CON

Those who can't find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.
Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too.

Lew Welch

#62. We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us.
- William H. Gass, "Mr. Gaddis and His Goddamn Books" (2006)

William H Gass

#63. The walls are everywhere. Limits. You're not smart enough, not rich enough. You get tired. You die. Some people like to pretend they've broken out. That they're running free. But there's no escape. You have to find a way to live within the walls. And then, they don't matter.

James Patrick Kelly

#64. If you're the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you're that kind of person, you'll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#65. I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.

Darren Shan

#66. I live my life until I start the cycle of my dreams,then I leave and search for you until I die.When I come back,I live to remember,I live to find you

Molly Bryant

#67. It was then that I had a choice. I could cry and lay down and die, or I could use what I had learned from him to keep going and fully live.

Aimee DuFresne

#68. Life is like an Hourglass. The grains of sand drop one by one and then it's all over. Live before you die. - RVM.

R.v.m.

#69. A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

Paul Newman

#70. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.

Anonymous

#71. It's what we're meant to do, she thought. Live the best way we can. And then we're meant to die.

Yael Politis

#72. ... Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless.

Irvine Welsh

#73. I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

Jack Kerouac

#74. Hill House has an impressive list of tragedies connected with it, but then, most old houses have. People have to live and die somewhere, after all, and a house can hardly stand for eighty years without seeing some of its inhabitants dies within its walls.

Shirley Jackson

#75. I would rather die on my feet then live on my knees

Emiliano Zapata

#76. If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.

Marcus Garvey

#77. If only I could die right now, then I would never have to live without him, I would just be gone ...

Tarryn Fisher

#78. You want to live?
Yes!
Then quit thinking you're gonna die!

Laurel Dewey

#79. One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.

George Orwell

#80. Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it ... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

Salman Rushdie

#81. I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts?

Ronnie Radke

#82. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

#83. If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#84. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

#85. You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Natalie Goldberg

#86. As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form..

Mikhail Naimy

#87. A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

John Muir

#88. That's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.

Elspeth Huxley

#89. can't stay and watch her die." "Then stay and see her live.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#90. I would rather die then try to live without you", "May you always love me and want me but never have me", "May you never love anyone but me".

Jude Deveraux

#91. As the ANGEL OF HORROR: I am going to live until I die, and then I'll be back.

Leslie A. Borghini

#92. You can't live life waiting for things to go wrong, because then you're not really living. Everyone is going to die. That is part of the journey of living. What matters most is living each day you do have like it might be yout last.

Missy Johnson

#93. I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you do, so I never have to live without you.

Stacey Jay

#94. Born weary of being born, he chose to be a shade; when, then, did he live, and by the transgression of what birth? And if, living, he wore his shroud, by what miracle did he manage to die?

Emil M. Cioran

#95. If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.

Roger Casement

#96. Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

William Penn

#97. Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.

Bell Hooks

#98. If you're going to die, then die. If you are going to live, then fight.

Emilie Autumn

#99. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#100. Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Irvin D. Yalom