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“A republic worth living in is worth fighting for, and sacrificing for, and dying for. In the fires of this conflict we shall wipe out the disloyalty of those who wear American garb without the faith, and establish a new concord of citizenship and a new devotion, so that we should have made a safe America the home and hope of a people who are truly American in heart and soul.”
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.”
Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inaugural address (4 March 1921).
“Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun All torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell And the last thing I see is my heart, Still beating, Breaking out of my body And flying away Like a bat out of Hell.”
Jim Steinman (1947–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can’t you see it’s the same? The same guns, the same children dying in the streets? Only the dream has changed, the blood is the same colour.”
John le Carré (1931–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the second question I would ask him... Have you ever seen what happens when a grenade goes off in a school? Do you really know what you’re doing when you order shock and awe? Are you prepared to kneel beside a dying soldier and tell him why he went to Iraq, or why he went to any war?”
John le Carré (1931–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Haven't laughed this hard in a long timeI better stop now before I start cryingGo off to sleep in the sunshineI don't want to see the day when its dying.”
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've got a ticket, To the fast city, Where the bells don't really ring, Getting off the plane the cold air, Rushes like bullets through my brain, And I'm divided between penguins and cats, But it's not about what animal you've got, It's about being able to fly, It's about dying nine times.”
Katie Melua (born 1984) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Belfast, from Call Off The Search (2003)
“We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.”
Sam Harris (born 1967) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sam Harris. Harris, Sam, and Reza Aslan. 2007. “Religion Reason Debate, Jan 25 2007 | Video | C-SPAN.Org.” January 25. https://www.c-span.org/video/?196385-1/religion-reason-debate.
“Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”
Diogenes Laërtius wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Tertullian
“They tell you, you can get everything you need from pulses and lentils and things like that. Yeah. Everything you need, except company, which is not to be had, because you are dying, bent double in a miasma of your own toxic farts.”
Dylan Moran (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ten Books," The Southern Review (Autumn 1935), p. 8
“Hearts are worn in these dark ages; You're not alone in this story's pages. Night has fallen amongst the living and the dying, And I try to hold it in, yeah I try to hold it in.”
Sarah McLachlan (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...so unpopular, if he became a funeral director people would stop dying”
Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (1942–2006) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The wit and wisdom of Tony Banks", BBC News (8 January 2006).
“There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.”
Tom Robbins (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This stuff's so fine Julius Caesar called for it with his dying breath. 'A toot, Brutus,' is what he said.”
Tom Robbins (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man — a black man. — in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.”
Usher (musician) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview with VIBE, "Caught Up" (July 2008), p. 65-71.
“It was irritating to have one’s physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.”
“It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truth is that he is a dangerous monomaniac, and his one idea is to ruin the man who owns him. With this object in view he will display a talent for getting into trouble and a genius for dying that are almost incredible.”
Banjo Paterson (1864–1941) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sheep", in (1917)
“If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of AIDs.”
Jimmy Carr (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[on his father's last wishes before dying] "I want to be cremated. Then I want to you to take the ashes, I want you to put them in a douche bottle, find a hooker, and run me through one more time." [groans and disgusted laughs] On my children, I did not write that. I am repeating it.”
Christopher Titus (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“She was trying to feel philosophical about dying, not managing it, trying not to be frightened, and not managing that, either.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even pain,” said the king, with no intention of being prophetic, “even pain is preferable to dying of unrelieved ennui.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we pay for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but in one's total orientation to life. Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One's religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.”
Rollo May (1909–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Grey dawn was seeping into the sick room [around Christmas 1867, Munch was almost dying then and spitting blood when he was 13; but he recovered]. I lay in the middle of the bed with my hands outside the bedclothes, looking straight ahead. Now I was in a pact with God. I had promised to serve him if I survived, if he allowed me to escape the tuberculosis. Now I could never be as before.”
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: T 2771, as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 26
“It was like dying and going to hell, except a little hotter and a little stickier. July in Tennessee was not the ideal weather in which to fight in a barrel.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only way you could keep from getting old was by dying before you made it.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying.”
Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview for Racing is in My Blood, 1991
“Although it is unfitting for someone like me to say this, in dying it is my hope not to become a Buddha. Rather, my will is permeated with the resolution to help manage the affairs of the province, though I be reborn as a Nabeshima samurai seven times. One needs neither vitality nor talent. In a word, it is a matter of having the will to shoulder the clan by oneself.”
Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659–1719) said by 1719 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not scared of dying, I just don't want to. If I stop lying, I'll just disappoint you.”
Robbie Williams (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How are you, doctor, that is what we say when we do not wish to play the weakling, we say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dying creatively is the hallmark of vivisystems.”
Kevin Kelly (editor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For those denounced by their smug, horrible children For a peppermint-star and the praise of the Perfect State, For all those strangled, gelded or merely starved To make perfect states; for the priest hanged in his cassock, The Jew with his chest crushed in and his eyes dying, The revolutionist lynched by the private guards To make perfect states, in the names of the perfect states.”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.”
Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That world he wanted them to know had vanished as smoke deserts the dying embers that made it.”
Annie Proulx (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I'm dying now and done for, What on earth was all the fun for? I am ill and old and terrified and tight.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was sun enough for lazing upon beaches, There was fun enough for far into the night. But I’m dying now and done for, What on earth was all the fun for? For God’s sake keep that sunlight out of sight.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.”
Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because dying, any time, is an experience you don’t survive.”
James Tiptree Jr. (1915–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.”
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.”
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw [the album cover for ] and was like, 'oh my -- damn. That has got to piss some people off.' [...] It's one to have people dying in your [albums], well you start messing with children, and people start getting pissed off.”
George Fisher (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cries of a dying dog are to be blotted out as best I can. René Char you are a poet who believes in the power of beauty to right all wrongs. I believe it also. With invention and courage we shall surpass the pitiful dumb beasts, let all men believe it, as you have taught me also to believe it.”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dance the Eagle to Sleep (1973)
“There's too little pleasant in this nasty dying world. We all need to remember how to play, how to be children together for a little while." (Gadi, twenty-eight: HOW CAN WE TELL THE DANCER FROM THE DANCE?)”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dying is not a crime.”
Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Introducing Christian Ethics (2010), by Samuel Wells and Ben Quash, John Wiley and Sons, p. 329
“My mother, not content with being motionless, deaf and speechless, is now going blind. That's what you get for not dying, you see.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Kingsley Amis (24 October 1947)