Top 100 Quotes About Something To Die For
#1. 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
#2. Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for
Stephenie Meyer
#3. One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
Carlos Castaneda
#4. You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
Frank Herbert
#5. You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.
Christopher Dawson
#6. 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
#7. To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to die for.
The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in
tragedy.
Cyprian Norwid
#9. 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.
#10. True leaders are born when you find something to die for
Myles Munroe
#11. Until a person finds something to die for, he or she has nothing to live for.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#12. Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for.
Anthony Marais
#13. Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
Dalton Trumbo
#14. To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.
Donald Miller
#15. To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.
Criss Jami
#16. We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.
Karen Traviss
#17. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.
Curtis Jackson
#18. You're not going to die?"
"Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.
Ilona Andrews
#19. That one person everyone looks for. They search and search, and some die trying to find 'em. And when you finally meet them, something inside of you says "Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you. And I didn't even know it.
Belle Aurora
#20. For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don't kill your own dreams.
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. Some may still be impatient to die for the emperor, but the chief point in life is to die of something and never for something if it can be helped.
William H Gass
#22. We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.
Steve Earle
#23. Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? The only reason I fought so hard to stay alive in China was because I didn't want to die for nothing. Today I can die for something - my way, my choice.
Jack Bauer
#24. Gentleman, God created you with the heart of a warrior. Until there's something you're willing to die for, you can't truly live.
Craig Groeschel
#25. Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.
Garth Brooks
#26. Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea
Tove Jansson
#27. Before you say again that you're going to die, I want to tell you something. There are people who spend their entire lives searching for a moment like the one you had last night, but they never achieve it. That's why, if you were to die now, you would die with your heart full of love.
Paulo Coelho
#28. A fighting man will die without something to fight for."
"And a woman?" I asked her.
She drew in a slow breath. "Everyone needs something - someone - to fight for, Marian.
A.C. Gaughen
#29. For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.
Chris Hardwick
#30. If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.
Ishmael Beah
#31. We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#32. Everybody is gonna die from something. And so the deal is how to use each day to move things forward for both you and the people you love and the country you love.
Tom Coburn
#33. Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
#34. I came to these lands because when a man threatens me and I look away, he has taken something important from me. If I fight and die, all he can take is my life. My courage, my dignity remain. Shall I do less for the nation I have made? Shall I allow them less honor than I claim for myself?
Conn Iggulden
#35. You saw what I saw, right? Adrienne doing something nice for Xarissa of her own free will.
I think I did, said G.A
Lunette stared into the unknown. This has to be a sign of the coming apocalypse We are all going to die.
Emily Kirby
#36. If you haven't found something you're willing to die for, than you don't deserve to live
Martin Luther King Jr.
#37. Miz Fitz,
If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven.
-Hellbound, a Lass
Miz Fitz sez:
You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.
Pete Hautman
#38. I never even heard her voice."
And after a while:
"It is a strange grief."
Softly:
"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
Alesandro Bariko
#39. O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
Alexander Pope
#40. Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation - in short, to remain a memory.
Jennifer Niven
#41. I don't know what's waiting for us when we die
something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
Charles De Lint
#42. Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind.
Vernon Johnson
#43. This is the way brown people have to fight, my grandfather says. You can't just put your fist up. You have to insist on something gently. Walk toward a thing slowly. But be ready to die, my grandfather says, for what is right. Be ready to die, my grandfather says, for everything you believe in.
Jacqueline Woodson
#44. Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live so petty and unblest
That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
Rather than, screened by safe majority,
Preserve his little life to little end,
And never raise a rebel cry!
John Galsworthy
#45. The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.
Milton Glaser
#46. One star breaks off from the others, shooting across the sky, a bright light trailing behind it, and I finally understand why people wish on dying stars. Because something always has to die for life to give birth to a new dream.
Kimberly Kinrade
#47. People who found something to live and die for always live in the hope of success. They never allow doubts to create distances between them and their harvest time. That is also their decision.
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. I think of the Ramones when I think of music that can save your life, but I'm not so sure about a band like Fall Out Boy who appears to make music in vein or that, at least, doesn't sound like something they would die for.
Shingai Shoniwa
#49. life is the reason for living and death is the reason for dying if we are to live, why die ? there is a ending for everything and being alive gives us a chance to do something and enjoy it.
Pamela
#50. Mr. Kendrick was born on a horse and he'll die on one, and maybe that's not something you can breed for. He's one of those rare men who can make a horse work for him but never asks for more than they have. WOW. Very unexpected.
Maggie Stiefvater
#51. I would not have the old ways die, for all people in their own way find a path to wisdom. Each way can be a good way. Each has something to offer the world.
Louis L'Amour
#52. I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.
Bob Monkhouse
#53. Listen to me, Jez. There's no reason for you to die-"
Wood ... poison."
No it isn't! Not to humans. And you're half human. You're vampire enough to survie something that would kill a human, but you're human enough not to be poisoned by wood.
L.J.Smith
#54. In a country where half a million die every year only for drinking polluted water, it is more necessary for us to do something for them.
Imran Khan
#55. We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.
Michael Huffington
#56. Something has to die for forgiveness to take place. (Maya Angelou or Brene Brown)
Kit Crumpton
#57. I'm a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, I'll be a farmer. It's something that I've wanted to do since I was 8 years old. I can tell you also that I see opportunity slipping away for our kids.
Jon Tester
#58. Martin luther king ' A man who have not discovered something he will die for, is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#59. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.
Marilyn Manson
#60. How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.
Alan Gottlieb
#61. We all of us die, Miss Smallwood,' he interrupted. 'But we don't all of us make our lives count for something. How much better to die saving another soul than to stand safe on shore and do nothing while others perish?
Julie Klassen
#62. Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.
Thomas Chalmers
#63. When people are left out, we're naturally going to focus on that, if it's 47 million people who don't have health insurance, if it's 23,000 people who die every year because they lack access to health care for something that's easily treatable.
Tim Kaine
#64. Smiley TV preachers might tell you that following Jesus is about being good so that God will bless you with cash and prizes, but really it's much more gruesome and meaningful. It's about spiritual physics. Something has to die for something new to live.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#65. Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
Richard Dawkins
#66. This is war, and people are going to die. Friends are going to die. I've come to accept the pain, to take the ugliness for granted. So it can be a little stunning when something good actually happens.
Pittacus Lore
#67. Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. It wasn't enough to be alive. Everyone needed something to live for.
Or die for.
Magnus Flyte
#70. When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.
Fulton J. Sheen
#71. I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#72. If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.
Andrew Klavan
#73. Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.
Christopher Judge
#74. It's a strange grief ... to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.
Alessandro Baricco
#75. But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
Jack Bowman
#76. In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#77. Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant not to become one of those people I despised.
Pete Townshend
#78. 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
#79. His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay oneself down to die at the end of every day, without thinking anything of it, was something he had not yet acquired.
Robert Musil
#80. Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.
Joyce Meyer
#82. He kept fighting. If you didn't have something to live for, he reasoned, you'd die. Not just to live for, but to live toward. He thought for a little while he'd live for someone else - a
Leslie Parry
#83. Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die.
Christopher Hitchens
#85. But what about all those dead people we saw? Maybe they rescued us for real, got killed, and now we're screwed. Maybe we were supposed to do something, but now it's all been messed up and we've been left here to die.
James Dashner
#86. I know some things
I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something
more than I could have said a few weeks ago.
Veronica Roth
#87. The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#88. There's something poetic about the fact that the first boy to ever ask for my number is the same boy I'm going to die with.
Jasmine Warga
#89. Before I die I want to count for something. Be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough. Know what it's like to have a best friend. Matter.
Jennifer Niven
#90. When there is nothing left to love for, it's easy to die for something.
Gavin Mills
#91. I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
-Martin Luther King
Bryan Curtis
#92. I do believe Jesus died so we could feel freed up to go after life to the full, so we would feel equpped to take risks and not beat ourselves up when we fail. He didn't die to make our lives look perfect. He died so we could stop feeling as if our lives have to be perfect for them to mean something.
Mandy Steward
#93. Was this what love was like? Not just something to fight and die for, but something that didn't draw attention to itself unless you looked for it?
Laura Thalassa
#94. It is evil," the Old Wise One said. "For very long we have walked carefree in the only paradise. It would be better if all here were to die." The last Shadow child said firmly, "Nothing is worse than that I should die," and something that had wrapped the world was gone.
Gene Wolfe
#95. To hold on, you have to find something that you're willing to die for.
Rick Yancey
#96. ...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
#97. A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#98. If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#99. There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself
Mark Owen
#100. Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
Emil Cioran
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