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“I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand. If we are born to die and we all die to live, then whats the point of living life if it just contradicts?”
Ronnie Radke (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't think we should try to have people live for a really long time. That it would cause asphyxiation of society because the truth is, most people don't change their mind. They just die. So if they don't die, we will be stuck with old ideas and society wouldn't advance.”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Musk Discusses War in Ukraine and Importance of Nuclear Power", w:Business Insider (March 26, 2022)
“This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.”
Why the lucky stiff (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Grant Hancock, with Henry Rios] "As for me, when I die I'll direct my family to bury me without fanfare." I smiled. "When you die, Grant, the tailors and barbers will declare a day of national mourning.”
Michael Nava (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'To die! and unrevenged!' she said, 'Yet let me die.'”
John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Longevity for a columnist is a simple proposition: once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die, or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.”
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Column, 18 December 2009, An anniversary of sorts at jewishworldreview.com.
“Every generation has believed they lived ins the End Time, @NellScovell. It is a product of Man's narcissism. Deeply, we believe that when we die, so then does the world. Which is true. Because when we die, we don't disappear, the world does.”
Norm Macdonald (1959–2021) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet to @NellScovell, Twitter 1:04 AM · (26 July 2019)
“Unsere übertragungen, auch die besten, gehen von einem falschen grundsatz aus, sie wollen das indische, griechische, englische verdeutschen, anstatt das deutsche zu verindischen, vergriechischen, verenglischen. ... Der grundsätzliche irrtum des übertragenden ist, daß er den zufälligen stand der eigenen sprache festhält, anstatt sie durch die fremde gewaltig bewegen zu lassen.”
Rudolf Pannwitz (1881–1969) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Krisis der europäischen Kultur (1917), as translated in Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings: Volume 1, 1913-1926 (1996), pp. 261-262
“Arms! arms! my friends, with speed my arms supply, 'Tis our last hour, and summons us to die; My arms!—in vain you hold me,—let me go— Give, give me back this moment to the foe. 'Tis well—we will not tamely perish all, But die revenged, and triumph in our fall.”
Christopher Pitt (1699–1748) said by 1748 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who are these 'savages' in Germany? For the most part they are both well-known and widely disparaged: Die Brücke in Dresden, the 'Neue Sezession' in Berlin, and 'Die Neue Vereinigung' in Munich.”
Franz Marc (1880–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chinesisch ist die leichteste Sprache, wenn sie unbefangen gelernt wird, vom Sinn her eher als vom Einzelausdruck. Aber für neugierige Frager bietet die Sprache eitel Tücken.”
Richard Wilhelm (1873–1930) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Die Seele Chinas. Berlin, Hobbing, 1926
“And shall I die? and unrevenged?" she said: "Yes! let me die! thus—thus I plunge in night.”
Charles Symmons (1749–1826) said by 1826 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They say that people who like summer flowers die in the summer. [...] I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Absolutely. That will never die. It will not die with me, then!”
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (born 1945) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked if she is still 'in love with Zermatt and music' as quoted in an appearance on Glanz & Gloria, Swiss SRF, 7 April 2017
“The Bible is a collective attempt by humanity to solve the deepest problems that we have. The deepest of all problems that we have is the problem of self-consciousness. The unique predicament of human beings is that we are self-conscious. Not only is it true that we are mortal and that we die, but most crucial is the reality that we know we will die.”
Jordan Peterson (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But alas, I'm going to die! I'm a chap who...clings to life with the fingernails of both hands. One who drinks of love till it overflows his lips, But alas, I'm going to die... The other night I sat alone in agony, Listening to the hours pass, wracked with sorrow... I have arrived to face the cold border of nihility.”
Xuân Diệu (1916–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nothingness" [Hư vô], as quoted in "Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of Poetry and History in 20th-Century Vietnam" by Neil Jamieson, in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian …
“Young bride Be alive till they say to you Die! Die!”
Sengai (1750–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The bullets bursted [sic] at the time of the war, and we used to die with bullets, but now let us die quietly.”
Hollow Horn Bear (1850–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through the vote, you'll change nothing in this country. Nothing, absolutely nothing. We'll only get change, unfortunately, when we go into a civil war here someday and do a work the military regime didn't do, killing as much as thirty thousand people, starting with FHC. It's all right if some innocent people die. Innocent people die in many wars.”
Jair Bolsonaro (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to the then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) at the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil. Gazeta do Povo (10 Octob…
“Translated from Afrikaans: Ons sal ons nie laat doodmaak nie, ons sal geeneen se slagoffer word nie; ons sal veg vir ons bestaan en ons sal bly lewe! ... Suid-Afrika se toekoms is vandag groter as sy verlede. Die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika toon een krisis na die ander, maar uit elke krisis is 'n groter triomf gebore.”
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901–1966) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the Unieskou on 9 April 1960, minutes before David Pratt made an attempt on is life, as quoted by N. F. Hefer & G. C. Basson in Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Pictorial Biography 1901-1966, p. 80. Voortrekkerpers (1966)
“Translated from Afrikaans: Die Britte het tot die dood toe vir hul wesenlike bestaan geveg. Kan u nie verstaan dat ons dit ook doen nie?”
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901–1966) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Addressing the South Africa club in London on 17 March 1961, as quoted by N. F. Hefer & G. C. Basson in Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Pictorial Biography 1901-1966, p. 93. Voortrekkerpers (1966)
“Businesses that fail to change die, while their men move on. Militaries that fail to change move on, while their men die. {DCJ 16, July 2018}”
Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It might be an impossible task, but at least it was a well-defined one. The rules for performance were no problem. He had learned them long ago on Teufel: you succeed, or you die trying. Until you succeed, you never relax. Until you die, you never give up.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old habits did not just die hard. They refused to die at all.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Was du teurer bezahlst, die Lüge oder die Wahrheit? Jene kostet dein Ich, diese doch höchstens dein Glück.”
Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863) said by 1863 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hey, comrades! Why are you looking so sad? Be brave, fight, beat the Germans, burn, wipe them out! I'm not afraid to die, comrades. It is happiness to die for one's people!”
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not acceptable to die in a cowardly manner. To avenge lynching, kill at least 4 to 6 people before you die.”
Mohammad Imran Pratapgarhi (born 1987) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in 2019, as reported in ‘Muslims must kill 4-6 persons before dying’: Congress’ new minority cell head Imran Pratapgarhi and his hate-filled ‘shayari’. Details
“If our dreams are to come true, we will have to control ourselves or we will die. We will die because we are not capable of being at the level of the civilization that we have been developing with our efforts. That is our dilemma. We should not spend our time merely correcting the consequences.”
José Mujica (1935–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All die be die”
Nana Akufo-Addo (born 1944) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Told New Patriotic Party members in Koforidua during a meeting, "All die be die - Nana Akuffo-Addo" in Modern Ghana, 10 February 2011
“If you love this country as much as I love this country, and you're willing to die for this country, like I was willing to die for this country, we can find a way to work with each other. But I will tell you that it's not always that easy. I don't think Donald Trump, for example, loved this country. And that made it hard to work with him”
Tammy Duckworth (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mushrooms sprout overnight and die, but banyan tree takes years to take root. True love is like a banyan tree - last to sprout, last to die.”
Tapan Kumar Pradhan (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I may die unmourned, but I sure as hell don’t plan to die unavenged.”
Mike Resnick (1942–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I die for you, you die for me, we become a sacrifice for one another. So I can say that you, Karanja, are Christ. I am Christ. Everybody who takes the Oath of Unity to change things in Kenya is Christ.”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Kenya we want deaths which will change things, that is to say, we want true sacrifice. But first we have to be ready to carry the cross. I die for you, you die for me, we become a sacrifice for one another. So I can say that you, Karanja, are Christ. Everybody who takes the Oath of Unity to change things in Kenya is a Christ.”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It makes his life more interesting to himself. He invents a meaning for his life, you see. Don’t we all do that? And to die fighting for freedom sounds more heroic than to die by accident.”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If u no dey post my picture now wey I dey alive, wey I dey hustle, wey I dey struggle, wey I dey pray everyday make God bless my work, you dey see me pass you dey show me hate, but I die, you post my picture, I go wake up pursue you. No post my picture. If u dey show me hate now, you no dey help me in any way, you no dey post my work, anything, no post my picture when I die.”
Shan George (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] Meinen Erfahrungen nach sind Geschichte und Politik zwei miteinander kommunizierende Gefäße, die unsere Gesellschaft ausmachen, das eine ist die Verbindung zu unser Aller Anbeginn, das andere ist unsere Aufgabe das Miteinander zu bestreiten [...]”
Matthias Laurenz Gräff (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] Die Kulturpolitik ist für mich eine Katastrophe. Österreich ist keine Kulturnation. Das ist nur Elitarismus. Aber die Kunst muss vom Volk ausgehen, aus der Seele des Volkes kommen. Und diese Kultur wird viel zu wenig gefördert”
Matthias Laurenz Gräff (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am perfectly sure I could never say I believe in the vigorous prosecution of the war. War offends my common sense and my regard for human life too much. I cannot feel any faith in good coming out of it, even now that we are in it; and besides that, even if I admit that good may come out of it, I could not encourage other people to die for a cause I am not ready to die for myself.”
Crystal Eastman (1881–1928) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Oswald Garrison Villard, November 16, 1917
“If they are to die, I die with them.”
Zura Karuhimbi (1925–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Teachers should not die poor. We need to leave a legacy and retire from service to live a happy life. As I serve the nation through extending service to the girl-child, I implore fellow teachers to also live an entreprising life and outlive the notion where society believes that teachers should die poor.”
Victoria Mwaka wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m going to die. But that meant nothing, too, because we were all going to die, and every breath of air I managed to wrest from the universe was one more the nightmares of my childhood had failed to deny me. When I breathed it was an act of defiance. When I breathed it was a victory.”
Adam-Troy Castro (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I die, I hope my children will be proud of me as a woman who at least tried to change things, instead of just waiting for the dictator to die.”
Stella Nyanzi (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would like to be the grave when you die | and where you will live | the sky under which you will sleep. | So we will never leave each other | not even if I die and you know it. (from Tu non mi basti mai, n. 3)”
Lucio Dalla (1943–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cannot die now, I thought. No, I have to seek vengeance; together with all the other people who have been made to suffer, I have to get back at those who have caused our suffering. No. I must not die.”
Kaneko Fumiko (1903–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m really hoping that in some movie I’m doing, I die — but I die, me, Donald — and they’re able to use my funeral and the coffin … That would be absolutely ideal. I would love that.”
Donald Sutherland (1935–2024) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "After bright career, Donald Sutherland finally nabs an Oscar" by Anthony McCartney (8 November 2017)
“I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.”
Uzodinma Iweala (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I prefer to die a martyr from an F-16 than to die of coronavirus or a stroke or a heart attack...”
Yahya Sinwar (1962–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s all I remember, really. We fly around. I shoot the guns. The explosions are pretty. People die. What the hell are they fighting for? Freedom? What the hell is that? You’re born out of nothing. You live for a while. You die. You go back to nothing. What kind of fool dies for a word? A better class of fool than the one who dies for a paycheck? Don’t know.”
William Barton (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source