Only Good Die Young Quotes

#1. I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Billy Joel

#2. Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die. Death is never pretty. (...) Is it that the good die young, or is it simply that the old turn bad and mad?

Kieron Gillen

#3. Not yet hardened, many young die good.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. There are two things I know about life ... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Lewis Black

#5. The good die young, but I have been spared to build myself up so that I may end my life as good as gold. The senior dead will be proud of me ... I will join the Y.M.C.A. of the immortals. Only, in this very hour, I may be missing eternity.

Saul Bellow

#6. Only the young die good.

Oliver Herford

#7. As I said, the good die young, and the motherfuckers go on forever, pardon my French.

Stephen Hunter

#8. I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

Curtis Jackson

#9. The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

John Barrymore

#10. Santayana ... reasoned that the young men who were being killed in the war would die anyhow sooner or later, and would be good for nothing while they lived.

Bertrand Russell

#11. It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky.

Mark Twain

#12. I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Birch Bayh

#13. Only the good die young.

Billy Joel

#14. ...but just to be sitting there meditating and praying for the world with another earnest young man- 'twere good enough to have been born just to die, as we all are. Something will come of it in the Milky Ways of eternity stretching in from of all our phantom unjuandiced eyes, friends.

Jack Kerouac

#15. Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.

Richard Jeni

#16. I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

Brigham Young

#18. They say the good die young, so the bad die old.
Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.

Jon Connor

#19. Fairness, he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.

Mitch Albom

#20. Dirck's thoughts wandered to Creena. It was a good thing she wasn't there or she'd die, too. He shuddered to think of how she'd feel when she got back and everyone was dead. He'd never see her again and there was so much he wanted to tell her. Now he'd never have a chance.

Marcha A. Fox

#21. The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

Michelle Franklin

#22. *Live fast, die young, and, leave a good looking corpse.* is dumb. When dead, looks matters not. (Furthermore, the corpse will only look good for a day, or, twelve.)

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#23. It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way - a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Suzanne Young

#24. The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

Hayley DiMarco

#25. There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

Gustavo Perez Firmat

#26. Only the good die young'- especially when they're milk fed

Josh Stern

#27. I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Mae West

#28. There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

Mitch Albom

#29. The good die young - but not always. The wicked prevail - but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Helen Hayes

#30. The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

George Howe Colt

#31. There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

Jeffrey Kluger

#32. I remember an aunt saying sagely, "The good die young." Not exactly a motivation to behave yourself.

Connie Willis

#33. Well, we all gotta die. You jest gotta hope you die good.

Moira Young

#34. Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

James Dean

#35. In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus)
Then it's a good thing we're in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn't it? (Fang)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#36. My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died painfully, not understanding why he had lived and still less why he had to die. No theories could give me, or him, any reply to these questions during his slow and painful dying.

Leo Tolstoy

#37. Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young.

Dia Reeves