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• “Der allgemeine Ueberblick zeigt uns, als die beiden Feinde des menschlichen Glückes, den Schmerz und die Langeweile.”

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We're waiting for the dinosaurs to die out. They will die. And then we'll move into their homes.”

  Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 1992-02-14 at Kokusai Koryu Centre, Osaka, Japan

• “Wait till the honeying of the lune, love! Die eve, little eve, die! We see that wonder in your eye. We'll meet again, we'll part once more. The spot I'll seek if the hour you'll find. My chart shines high where the blue milk's upset.”

  James Joyce (1882–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Man kann sich des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, daß die Menschen gemeinhin mit falschen Maßstäben messen, Macht, Erfolg und Reichtum für sich anstreben und bei anderen bewundern, die wahren Werte des Lebens aber unterschätzen.”

  Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Die schnellen Herrscher sind’s, die kurz regieren.”

  Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) said by 1805 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Die heilige christliche Kirche ist das fürnehmeste Weil Gottes, umb welches willen Alles geschaffen ist; darinnen täglich die großen Wunder geschehen, als Sunde vergeben, Tod wegnehmen, Gerechtigkeit und ewiges Leben geben.”

  Martin Luther (1483–1546) said by 1546 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship, 2003, Jeffrey J. Meyers, Canon, Pr., , p. 285.

• “If women get tired and die of bearing, there is no harm in that; let them die as long as they bear; they are made for that.”

  Martin Luther (1483–1546) said by 1546 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What moment in that gradual decay Does resurrection choose? What year? Who has the stopwatch? Who rewinds the tape? Are some less lucky, or do all escape? A syllogism; other men die But I am not another: therefore I'll not die.”

  Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.”

  Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 1950

• “Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.”

  Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Im Kapitalismus ist eine Religion zu erblicken, d.h. der Kapitalismus dient essentiell der Befriedigung derselben Sorgen, Qualen, Unruhen, auf die ehemals die so genannten Religionen Antwort gaben.”

  Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Translated by Rodney Livingstone in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Harvard: 1996)

• “Mir schien: Ausgesprochene Unlust, mich über Dinge des praktischen Lebens, Zukunft, Daten, Politik zu unterhalten. Man ist an die intellektuelle Sphäre gebannt wie manchmal Besessene auf die sexuelle, ist von ihr angesaugt.”

  Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Main features of my first impression of hashish" (18 December 1927), On Hashish (2006), p. 21

• “'But what happens when you die?' 'You’re finished with,' Enderby said promptly. 'Done for. And even if you weren’t – well, you die then, gasp your last, then you’re sort of wandering, free of body. You wander around and then you come in contact with a sort of big thing. What is this big thing? God, if you like.'”

  Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Die Verehrung mächtiger unsichtbarer Wesen, welche dem hülflosen Menschen durch die natürliche, auf dem Bewusstsein seines Unvermögens gegründete Furcht abgenöthigt wurde, …”

  Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) said by 1804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We are born in ignorance, we die in ignorance, but maybe sometimes we learn something important and pass it along to others before we die. Or we write it down in a little book.”

  Greg Bear (1951–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Berndt reicht mir eine Ausarbeitung über die von uns zu betreibende okkultistische Propaganda ein. Hier wird in der Tat Einiges geleistet. Die Amerikaner und Engländer fallen ja vorzüglich auf eine solche Art von Propaganda herein. Wir nehmen alle irgendwie zur Verfügung stehenden Kronzeugen der okkulten Weissagung als Mithelfer in Anspruch. Nostradamus muß wieder einmal daran glauben.”

  Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 19 May 1942 concerning the use of Nostradamus's famous "Hister" quatrain

• “All living things are afraid to die." "No, you're exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die.”

  David Zindell (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.”

  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Orders to the 57th Infantry Regiment during the Gallipoli campaign (25 April 1915); as quoted in Studies in Battle Command by Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College, p. 89; also quoted in Tu…

• “We have to do our best to uphold in our own lives the values that they were prepared to die for. We have to honor those who carry forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it.”

  Barack Obama (born 1961) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Remarks by President Obama at the 70th Anniversary of D-Day at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France at June 6, 2014

• “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

  Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Der Mensch gönnt seiner Gattung nichts, daher hat er die Gesetze erfunden. Er darf nicht, also sollen die andern auch nicht.”

  Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: From Der Mensch, published 1931.

• “Little was known of Sierra Leone And how it connect to the diamonds we own Though it's thousands of miles away Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today Over here, it's a drug trade, we die from drugs Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs.”

  Kanye West (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I don't want my mind alerting People sayin' tweeting gonna make you die early How 'bout have my heart hurting? Hold it all inside, that could make you die early I be going through things I had to wrote Celebrity drama that only Brad'll know Too many family secrets, somebody passing notes Things I cried about, I find laughable.”

  Kanye West (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We need to send the message that anyone who orders suicide bombings against Americans, or protects those who do, commits suicide himself. And U.S. marines will search every cave in Afghanistan to make that principle stick. You order, you die—absolutely, positively, you die.”

  Thomas Friedman (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.”

  Joe Hill (activist) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Said while being taken to his execution, as quoted in Philip Foner, The Case of Joe Hill (International Publishers Co., 1966), p. 108

• “All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that’s the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it’s life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?”

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts”

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Space Crone" (1976)

• “If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Prospects for Women in Writing" (1986)

• “If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.”

  G. H. Hardy (1877–1947) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted by Bertrand Russell, Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909–13, Routledge, 1992, p. xxix.

• “If I die tonight, then I guess I die tonight Let me go on.”

  Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I think I am a goner. If I die, I die a true American; and what grieves me most is, thinking that I've been murdered by a set of Irish - by Morrissey in particular.”

  William Poole (1821–1855) first seen 1855 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On his deathbed (March 08, 1855).

• “If I am to die, I would rather die fighting on the left.”

  David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Remark to Herbert Samuel, explaining his opposition to Liberal politicians joining the National Government (5 October 1931), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 301

• “To be forgotten. The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.”

  Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Oh, If I should die tonight Oh baby, though it be far before my time I won't die blue, sugar yeah 'Cause I've known you.”

  Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”

  Steve Biko (1946–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in The Last Defenders of the Laager: Ian D. Smith and F.W. de Klerk (1985), by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 204; also in "The Mind of Black Africa" (1996) by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 159, and under "Ideas" in The Peng…

• “Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification...”

  Cory Doctorow (born 1971) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok" Wired (23 January 2023)

• “A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted. You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.”

  Lance Armstrong (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Gestern war Concert Spirituel. Die Symphonie von Haydn war allerliebst und die Exekution vorzüglich gut. Mlle Wendling und ein welscher Tenorist Giuliano wurden ausgepfiffen. Danner und ein andrer welscher Geiger Giuliani wurden allgemein beklatscht. Eine Symphonie concertante von den Gebrüdern und Söhnen Thonberg [Romberg] fand Beifall. Das Konzert auf dem Fagotte von Devienne so so.”

  Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792) first seen 1785 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter dated Paris, 3rd February 1785. To pater Roman Hofstetter in Amorbach, in: Irmgard Leux-Henschen, Joseph Martin Kraus in seinen Briefen, Stockholm 1978.

• “I should prefer that Fortune keep me in her camp rather than in the lap of luxury. If I am tortured, but bear it bravely, all is well; if I die, but die bravely, it is also well.”

  Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Old Soldiers never die, they only fade away, which has now been commuted to, they never die but only get slightly out of focus. However, the focus must be pretty sharp, for we find our retired Soldiers are in great demand and they secure ready employment in large organisations in the public and private sectors.”

  Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nicht aus dem schweren Boden wo Blut und Geschlecht und Schwur mächtig und heilig sind, wo die Erde selbst gegen Wahnsinn und die geweihten heilgen uralten Ordnungen hütet und schützt und rächt, — nicht aus dem schweren Boden der Erde, sondern aus freiem Gefallen und freiem Verlangen des Geistes, der nicht des Eides und des Gesetzes bedarf, wird der Freund dem Freunde geschenkt.”

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As translated in A New Critique of Theoretical Thought (1953) by Herman Dooyeweerd, Vol. 3, p. 179

• “So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”

  William Morris (1834–1896) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Art Under Plutocracy" (1883)

• “He did not die in the night, He did not die in the day. But in the morning twilight His spirit pass'd away.”

  William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.”

  Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”

  Mitch Albom (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When I die, when I die, I'll rot. But when I live, but when I live, I'll give it all I've got.”

  Sufjan Stevens (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.”

  Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Eine der wichtigsten Tugenden im gesellschaftlichen Leben, die täglich seltener wird, ist die Verschwiegenheit.”

  Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752–1796) said by 1796 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Wir sehen die klügsten, verständigsten Menschen im Leben Schritte tun, über die wir den Kopf schütteln müssen.”

  Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752–1796) said by 1796 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.”

  Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) first seen 1715 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesley (1715).

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