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“It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.”
James Truslow Adams (1878–1949) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeffersonian Principles and Hamiltonian Principles (1932), p. xvii
“I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know." "I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nur in schwülen Prüfungsstunden Sprosst die Palme, die den Sieger krönt.”
Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis (1762–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Psyches Trauer", reported in Dictionary of Quotations: German (1906), 265
“Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Satan's Religion" in American Mercury (August 1954), p. 41
“... wenn der Marxismus atheistisch fix mit Status quo bleibt, um der Menschenseele nichts als einen mehr oder minder eudämonistisch eingerichteten »Himmel« auf Erden zu setzen - ohne die Musik, die aus diesem mühelos funktionierenden Mechanismus der Ökonomie und des Soziallebens zu ertönen hätte.”
Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Und sind Sie mit mir einer Meinung, daß es die erste Bedingung zu einem Künstler sei, daß er Respekt vor dem Großen habe, und sich davor beuge, und es anerkenne, und nicht die großen Flammen auszupusten versuche, damit das kleine Talglicht ein wenig heller leuchte?”
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) first seen 1052 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Wilhelm Taubert, August 27, 1831, cited from Reisebriefe von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Aus den Jahren 1830 bis 1832 (Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1862) p. 256; translation from Emil Naumann (trans. F. Prae…
“Die zwei größten Tyrannen der Erde, der Zufall und die Zeit.”
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jeder liebt sein Land, seine Sitten, seine Sprache, sein Weib, seine Kinder, nicht weil sie die besten auf der Welt, sondern weil sie die bewährten Seinigen sind, und er in ihnen sich und seine Mühe selbst liebt.”
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And perhaps, just as those who die in this world by the separation of body and soul obtain different positions... in accordance with the differences of their deeds, so those who die, so to speak, in the realm of the heavenly Jerusalem, descend to the lower regions of our world, in such a way as to occupy different positions on earth in proportion to their merits.”
Origen (184–254) said by 254 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Er meidet die überaus geschmackvollen offiziellen »Helden«friedhöfe. Warum nur, so denkt er, tun die Deutschen so viel für ihre Toten und so wenig für ihre Lebenden?”
Heinrich Böll (1917–1985) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: You Enter Germany" (1967); cited from Aufsätze, Kritiken, Reden (Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1967) p. 278. Translation: "You are Now Entering Germany", in Leila Vennewitz (trans.) Missing Persons and Other Essays (Evans…
“‘The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what' you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and "how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.’”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Die Scheu vor der Spekulation, das angebliche Forteilen vom bloß Theoretischen zum Praktischen, bewirkt im Handeln notwendig die gleiche Flachheit wie im Wissen. Das Studium einer streng theoretischen Philosophie macht uns am unmittelbarsten mit Ideen vertraut, und nur Ideen geben dem Handeln Nachdruck und sittliche Bedeutung.”
Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) said by 1854 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vorlesungen über die Methode des akademischen Studiums (Seventh Lecture), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schellings sämmtliche Werke, V, 1859, p. 277.
“Die Gefahr, dass der Computer so wird wie der Mensch, ist nicht so groß wie die Gefahr, dass der Mensch so wird wie der Computer.”
Konrad Zuse (1910–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in: Hersfelder Zeitung. Nr. 212, 12. September 2005.
“I’m not waiting to die, I don’t believe I’ll die, I am waiting for something else. To arrive. To understand. To be at my destination.”
China Miéville (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And if I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take but please don't cry, just know that I have made these songs for you, and if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take cause I'm ready for a funeral”
“if I fall if I die know I lived it to the fullest, if I fall if I die know I lived and missed some bullets”
“Things die too you know. And so if they too have to die well there it is it is so much better to let them go.”
Franco Bassani (1929–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come, if we have to die, let us die, but say nothing! … so true it is that misfortune binds hearts together.”
Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ich bin nicht nur überzeugt, dass das, was ich sage, falsch ist, sondern auch das, was man dagegen sagen wird. Trotzdem muss man anfangen, davon zu reden. Die Wahrheit liegt bei einem solchen Gegenstand nicht in der Mitte, sondern rundherum wie ein Sack, der mit jeder neuen Meinung, die man hineinstopft, seine Form ändert, aber immer fester wird!”
Robert Musil (1880–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[People] always tell me, “Weiwei, leave the nation, please.” Or “Live longer and watch them die.” Either leave, or be patient and watch how they die. I really don’t know what I’m going to do.”
“Ich vermeinte, man verlange physische Determinationen und nicht abstracte integrationes. Es fängt sich ein verderblicher goût an einzuschleichen, durch welchen die wahren Wissenschaften viel mehr leiden, als sie avancirt werden, und wäre es oft besser für die realem physicam, wenn keine Mathematik auf der Welt wäre.”
Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) first seen 1750 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Leonhard Euler, 26 January 1750, published in
“Ze waren begin geweest van den val. Van daar was de roepstem uitgegaan om protectie uit den vreemden. Die Goudvelde waren een bron geweest van ellende voor die Regering. Aan de goudvelden was het te wijten geweest dat het land in oorlog was gewikkeld worden.”
Piet Joubert (1834–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Damn you!" Dagenham raged, “Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.” “Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.”
Alfred Bester (1913–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”
Sue Monk Kidd (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.”
Sue Monk Kidd (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Die Geheimnisse der Welt ertrage ich gut; nicht die Erklärungen dafür.”
Karlheinz Deschner (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Demokratie ist die Kunst, dem Volk im Namen des Volkes feierlich das Fell über die Ohren zu ziehn.”
Karlheinz Deschner (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Die Natur zeigt uns vom Löwen zwar nur den Schwanz. Aber es ist mir unzweifelhaft, dass der Löwe dazugehört, wenn er sich auch wegen seiner ungeheuren Dimensionen dem Blicke nicht unmittelbar offenbaren kann. Wir sehen ihn nur wie eine Laus, die auf ihm sitzt.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Heinrich Zangger (10 March 1914), quoted in The Curious History of Relativity by Jean Eisenstaedt (2006), p. 126.
“Liebe Mutter! Heute eine freudige Nachricht. H. A. Lorentz hat mir telegraphiert, dass die englischen Expeditionen die Lichtablenkung an der Sonne wirklich bewiesen haben.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Postcard to his mother Pauline Einstein (1919)
“Die Quantenmechanik ist sehr achtung-gebietend. Aber eine innere Stimme sagt mir, daß das doch nicht der wahre Jakob ist. Die Theorie liefert viel, aber dem Geheimnis des Alten bringt sie uns kaum näher. Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, daß der nicht würfelt.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Max Born (4 December 1926); The Born-Einstein Letters (translated by Irene Born) (Walker and Company, New York, 1971) .
“Die Diktatur bringt den Maulkorb und dieser die Stumpfheit. Wissenschaft kann nur gedeihen in einer Atmosphäre des Freien Wortes.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Science and Dictatorship," in Dictatorship on Its Trial, by Eminent Leaders of Modern Thought (1930) - later as Dictatorship on Trial (1931), Otto Forst de Battaglia (1889-1965), ed., Huntley Paterson, trans., introduct…
“Was mich eigentlich interessiert, ist, ob Gott die Welt hätte anders machen können; das heisst, ob die Forderung der logischen Einfachheit überhaupt eine Freiheit lässt.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Ernst G. Straus, who was Einstein's assistant from 1944 to 1948, in Carl Seelig, Helle Zeit—Dunkle Zeit (Europa Verlag, Zurich, 1956), p. 72
“Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to? Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was a cut flower in a vase; fair to see, yet bound to die, and to die very soon if the water was not constantly renewed.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The World Crisis, 1911–1914 : Chapter XIII (On The Oceans), Churchill, Butterworth (1923), p. 295
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The harsh mathematics of polio makes it clear: We cannot maintain a level of one thousand or two thousand cases a year. Either we eradicate polio, or we return to the days of tens of thousands of cases per year. That is no alternative at all. We don't let children die because it is fatiguing to save them. Our commitment as a foundation is to work with partners until no children die from polio.”
Bill Gates (born 1955) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Our Role in the Polio Eradication Initiative" Medizinische Universität Wien (12 December 2009)
“Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15; these words are also engraved upon Marx’s grave.
“Die Gesellschaft besteht nicht aus Individuen, sondern drückt die Summe der Beziehungen, Verhältnisse aus, worin diese Individuen zueinander stehn.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One of his most famous and most quoted remarks. First printed in the Boston Globe, June 16, 1930, after he had attended Tremont Temple Baptist Church, where Dr. James W. Brougher was minister. He asked Will to say a few…
“You will die — and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything — or cease asking.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just now I'm painting a beautiful woman, smiling, burnt to a crisp, with feathers of all colors, held up by a small die of burning marble; the die is in turn held up by a little puff of smoke, churned and quite; in the sky there are asses with parrot-heads, grasses and beach sand, all about to explode, all clean, incredible objective..”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in Dali's letter to his art-friend Lorca, 1927; as quoted in Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War, Robin Adèle Greeley, p. 67
“If the world is to die of misery, at any rate let it die cheerfully, and in sympathy with itself!”
Émile Zola (1840–1902) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 10 (tr. E. A. Vizetelly, 1901)
“We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet fill my glass: give me one kiss: My own sweet Alice, we must die. There's somewhat in this world amiss Shall be unriddled by and by. There's somewhat flows to us in life, But more is taken quite away. Pray, Alice, pray, my darling wife, That we may die the self-same day.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Miller's Daughter" (1832)
“And be all plunderers curst. 'The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed, Of unsatisfied love of display, Of unsatisfied love of the high, Unvulgar, unsoiled, and ideal. Let their trappings be taken away. Let them suffer starvation and die Of being brought down to the real.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Die Welt ist die Gesamtheit der Tatsachen, nicht der Dinge”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.”
Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source