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“To himself every one is an immortal: he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
Samuel Butler (novelist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, when the last and dreadful Hour This crumbling Pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And musick shall untune the Sky.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) said by 1700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mind of the man who dreams is fully satisfied by what happens to him. The agonizing question of possibility is no longer pertinent. Kill, fly faster, love to your heart's content. And if you should die, are you not certain of re-awaking among the dead? Let yourself be carried along, events will not tolerate your interference. You are nameless. The ease of everything is priceless.”
André Breton (1896–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.”
Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She don't set no store to see a king. Her pa a king back in Africa, and they shoot him dead. Them Portuguese slavers show her what it mean to be a king—it mean you die quick like everybody, and spill blood red like everybody, and cry out loud in pain and scared—oh, fine to be a king, and fine to see one. Do them White folk believe this lie?”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh come, please come, to the Poor Mouth Fair Where the Saints kneel round in their underwear And say out prayers that most need saying For needful sinners who've forgotten praying; And in every alcove and niche you spy The living dead who envy the long since gone Who never wished to die.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You make to die You are the dead You the assassin of yourself.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a woman becomes weary and at last dead from bearing, that matters not; let her only die from bearing, she is there to do it.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) first seen 1519 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sermon Von dem ehelichen Stande (1519), p. 41 — as quoted in The Ethic of Freethought: A Selection of Essays and Lectures (1888) by Karl Pearson, "The Sex-Relations in Germany", p. 424
“Wild Wild West is a comedy dead zone. You stare in disbelief as scenes flop and die. The movie is all concept and no content; the elaborate special effects are like watching money burn on the screen. You know something has gone wrong when a story is about two heroes in the Old West, and the last shot is of a mechanical spider riding off into the sunset.”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Review of Wild Wild West (30 June 1999)
“I’m southern born, and southern bred, and when I die, I’ll be southern dead.”
Zell Miller (1932–2018) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Following death of former Democratic Georgia state House Speaker Tom Murphy in December 2007. Zell Miller: Murphy death ends era of individual power player | ajc.com
“I'd say — "I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap." And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die — in bed.”
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit, And then we shall die no more.'”
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to John Middleton Murry (2 February 1923)
“Die for the Virgin, for your mother the Empress, for the royal family. The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honor and glory.”
Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) said by 1800 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Art of Victory: The Life and Achievements of Field Marshal Suvorov" - Page 217 by Philip Longworth - 1966.
“Only children chatter of an afterlife. We are nothing but transient dissipative structures. In your cherishing the bone dust of the dead you are seeking to deny the basic truth of existence: that when we die, we are gone.”
Stephen Baxter (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“. . . is [it] better to be alive or dead[?] The religious plump for the latter, though I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.”
H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.”
Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Sir Walter Scott
“We cannot think or act, but the soul of some man, who has lived before, points the way. The dead never die.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.”
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zareef, Adil Saturday, (January 28, 2006) The Demise of a Dream. The Daily Times
“May the Gods, if they did not die of boredom, never give you one of those flat kingdoms to govern; may lead you through mountain paths; may they give you for a companion a good Andalusian mule with eyes like wells, a brow like an anvil, and who stops dead in his tracks because he sees the shadow his ears make on the road in front of him.”
Émile Chartier (1868–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.”
Philip Pullman (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. Let those winds of time blow over my head. I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The courage to stand alone as if others didn't exist and think only of what you're doing. Not to get scared if people ignore you. You have to wait for years, have to die. Then after you're dead, if you're lucky, you become somebody.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She didn't seem dead. There was only a swelling of the lips, as if she were angry. The strange thing was her idea of renting a painter's studio, having an armchiar, no less, drawn up s she could die in front of the window that looked toward Superga. A cat had given her away–it was in the room with her, and the next day, miaowing and scratching the door, it had made them open.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear, was it really you and I? In truth the riddle's ill to read, So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.”
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was sure that Lys was dead. I wanted myself to die, and yet I clung to life—useless and hopeless and harrowing a thing as it had become. I clung to life because some ancient, reptilian forbear had clung to life and transmitted to me through the ages the most powerful motive that guided his minute brain—the motive of self-preservation.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.”
Lawrence Wright (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is there a better way to die than ... to be watching a movie and then just drop dead? ... with all over you ...”
Vincent Price (1911–1993) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (July 1984 interview by ; quote at 6:07 of 10:01 in video)
“I am afraid of sharks I will not swim out past my head And sometimes I worry my boyfriend will die My first love is already dead”
Sia (musician) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fear, (2001).
“You may know you’re going to die, but you won’t know you’re dead.”
Ron English (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some people eventually die at 80 but the Truth is, they have been dead since they were in their 30s”
Betty Irabor (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives, and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing, and they’re dead before they die.”
Lev Grossman (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won’t live in a wasteland. I’d rather die in paradise.”
Lev Grossman (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are not enough mothers during the day to force the children to go to school and stay there for the whole day. The mothers are at work. Or they are drunk. Defeated by life. Dead. We die young, these days.”
Sindiwe Magona (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trees, they die dead like people too. They need care too. The earth around us needs care. We come from earth, we eat from earth, and one day we must go back to earth, so why are we treating it so bad?”
Abi Daré wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The end is not a distant appointment, but a present that perpetuates itself, and so we die continuously and are dead even when we breathe.”
Vittorino Andreoli (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lion shorn of his strength, an eagle robbed of his freedom, or a dove bereft of his mate, all die, it is said, of a broken heart; and who will aver that this grim bandit could bear the three-fold brunt, heart-whole? This only I know, that when the morning dawned, he was lying there still in his position of calm repose, his body unwounded, but his spirit was gone — the old King-wolf was dead.”
Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own significance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you.”
Serie Barford (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know now that the only real crime of Francis Parker Yockey was to write a book, and for this he had to die. It is always impossible, of course, to come to grips with the essence of greatness. There are known facts of a great life, but facts are dead and almost mute when we seek the essential reality of a creative personality.”
Willis Carto (1926–2015) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction to the 1963 Noontide Press edition of Yockey's book Imperium, p. i, quoted in The Farther Shores of Politics, 1968
“In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money – it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.”
Walter Moers (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't really care if you cry On the real you should've never lied Should've saw the way she looked me in my eyes She said, "Baby, I am not afraid to die" Push me to the edge All my friends are dead.”
Lil Uzi Vert (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Henry’s father is ill, but he is not ready to die. This is a problem for the king himself. It is an even more serious problem for everyone else. A semifunctioning king is far worse for the realm than a dead one.”
Dan Jones (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.”
Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a teenager, a young black man, I was born dead so for someone to put a threat on my life, my philosophy was 'I'm going to die anyway.”
John Carlos (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death... They haven't stopped me from doing what I want every day. I believe in life, I believe in freedom, so my mind is not consumed with death. It's with love, life and those things. In many ways, on many days, only my body is here, because I am thinking about what's happening around the world.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I spend my days preparing for life, not for death" The Guardian, Laura Smith (2007-10-25)
“Every death even the cruellest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race I hate Nature this passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-face that can bear everything this goads us to greater and greater acts”
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you know what Pesh Merga means? It means 'those who face death'. . . I myself have never seen one face death; they all turn away at the end. - Dr Ahmet Talzani”
Scott Anderson (novelist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!”
Alfred Jodl (1890–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Dr. G. M. Gilbert, after receiving the death sentence and getting annoyed more at the method of execution, hanging. Quoted in G. M. Gilbert Nuremberg Diary (1995).