Top 100 Quotes About Die Young
#1. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.
Meghan Daum
#2. I'd rather live long in obscurity than die young with fame.
Rick DeStefanis
#3. Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#4. Dose who love deep never grow old ... Dey may die of age, but dey die young.
Arthur Wing Pinero
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Anna [Nicole Smith ] in a lot of ways always thought she was going to die young and she said that she thought she was going to be like Marilyn Monroe. Initially, Anna had always wanted to be buried near Marilyn Monroe.
Howard K. Stern
#8. *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
#9. Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men
Graham Greene
#10. I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...
Edith Piaf
#11. I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
Stephen Dunn
#12. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?
Kenneth Cain
#13. Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
Keith Richards
#14. (On his addiction to opiods): I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.
Lenny Bruce
#16. I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#17. It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
Grace Paley
#18. 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
#19. The time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#20. Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.
Dalai Lama
#21. Only the good die young'- especially when they're milk fed
Josh Stern
#22. I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West
#23. When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.
Eric Hoffer
#24. There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.
Mitch Albom
#25. I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.
Marty Feldman
#26. If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#27. Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
Russell Banks
#29. 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
#30. Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.
Elbert Hubbard
#31. We don't anticipate accidents, nor do we expect to die young.
V.C. Andrews
#32. Better to go into that world in the full glory of some passion than to fade and wither with age. Live fast. Die young, my wayward friend.
Pierce Brown
#33. To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor.
Bauvard
#34. I remember an aunt saying sagely, "The good die young." Not exactly a motivation to behave yourself.
Connie Willis
#35. Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
Alexis Carrel
#36. Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
James Dean
#37. When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up.. I'd really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#38. No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.
Edgar Friedenberg
#40. Mean girls die young, sweetie. Take my word for it.
Lena Brown
#41. I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document my stunts and pack my message into a bottle. I thought maybe I could be discovered after I'd died, like Van Gogh.
Steve-O
#42. When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
Daniel Barenboim
#43. Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young.
Dia Reeves
#44. Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthur
#45. I want to be like a Supernova; burn bright and die young.
Anonymous
#46. It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky.
Mark Twain
#47. Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music ... musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity.
Fela Kuti
#48. 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
#49. Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.
Ja Rule
#50. Scoundrels [ ... ] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [ ... ] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.
Osamu Dazai
#51. Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#52. May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
Mark Batterson
#54. There are two things I know about life ... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.
Lewis Black
#55. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
Raymond Chandler
#56. He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet ... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo ... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?
Agatha Christie
#57. Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
Henry Ward Beecher
#58. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
Samuel Ullman
#59. In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives - the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.
Mark Lawrence
#60. I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come.
Marilyn Manson
#61. I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
Laurence Housman
#62. People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: 'you're not fooling anyone', they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old.
David
#63. When you're young, you want to live fast, but you definitely don't want to die young. At the same time, you want to do things in slow, progressive manner that will benefit you in the future. Don't jump into things.
Harbhajan Singh
#66. If I die young, bury me in satin.
Lay me down on a bed of roses.
Sink me in the river at dawn.
Send me away with the words of a love song.
The Band Perry
#67. 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
#68. Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.
Raymond Chandler
#69. It's the people who aren't scared who die young.
Stephen King
#70. Generations of parents have upheld this line if thinking. When a daughter showed a promise of talent, they saw it as a curse and worried that she would die young. Eventually, the very lack of talent became a sure sign of virtue for women.
He Zhen
#71. Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.
Dorothy Allison
#72. The evening stretches out against the sky, I thought. Like a patient etherized upon a table. I grinned to myself. Live fast, die young, and have a literate corpse.
Robert B. Parker
#73. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
Marilyn Monroe
#74. The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
Larry Gelbart
#75. As I said, the good die young, and the motherfuckers go on forever, pardon my French.
Stephen Hunter
#76. You know the best thing about heroes, Jaime? They all die young and leave more women for the rest of us.
George R R Martin
#77. Living's a risk, Aza," she says sharply. "Heroes die young. Would you choose to be less than a hero? Here, the sky will light with fire for you. Our funerals are their sunsets.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#78. In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.
John Updike
#80. I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that
Curtis Jackson
#81. The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
John Barrymore
#82. If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.
Dennis Rodman
#83. I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things ... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst ... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
Angelina Jolie
#85. Alcohol is the motorcycle of beverages. Liver fast, die young.
Jarod Kintz
#86. I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone ... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#88. The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.
Paul Dickson
#89. Though the favourites of the gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of gods. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
#91. The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or mutilated manuscript, unburdened with contrived or banal endings.
Anthony Powell
#92. Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
Dale Carnegie
#93. Many types of people will have to disappear ... Many people will want to join us. Possibly we will conquer the whole world. People will die young but it will be fun. We will burn the corpses of the heroes.
Eduard Limonov
#94. True dreamers are both geniuses and madmen. Most lands can tolerate only a few, and those die young.
N.K. Jemisin
#96. 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
#97. No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn't a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn't plan to die young. Death is so boring.
Sofea Shah
#98. Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#99. ... you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young.
L.M. Montgomery
#100. The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
Sam Kean
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