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• “When I die, I want to die a philanthropist”

  Salamatu Kamara wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You will not return alive -- left to die Suffering until the end -- left to die”

  Chuck Schuldiner (1967–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Lady, there's two of us in this office. We're not ready to die but it's getting bad. [...] I know you've got a lot in the building but we're up on the top. Smoke rises too. Come on, I can barely breathe now — can't see. It's really bad, it's black, it's arid. We're young men, not ready to die.”

  Kevin Cosgrove (1955–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I was born a Greek, I will die a Greek; Pattakos was born Fascist, he will die Fascist.”

  Melina Mercouri (1920–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “They’re not going to chase me out. I will be a Republican when I die. I was born one, I will die one.”

  Norma Anderson (born 1932) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: When duty calls, you do it’: The 91-year-old lawmaker who could have Trump disqualified Retrieved 9 April 2025

• “At least if you can laugh instead of cry the troubles will either kill you or go away, and it is a bit better to die laughing than to die crying.”

  Robert Ruark (1915–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Many of our most capable people are spending their powers on trying to salvage human wreckage, on all sorts of life that can never come to anything, and not even on salvaging it, but only on preserving it, on merely keeping alive by artificial means that which ought to die, and which, if left to nature, would die.”

  William Gayley Simpson (1892–1990) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: p. 72, quoted in Garrison (1935)

• “Think you the old would die? At any cost they would prolong the light. 'Tis we, in whose pure blood the fever takes, Newly innoculate with violent life, 'Tis we who are so mad to die.”

  Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Das Glück ist die Liebe, die Lieb’ ist das Glück, Ich hab’ es gesagt und nehm’s nicht zurück.”

  Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: „Frauen-Liebe und Leben“, sect. 7. Gedichte, 3rd ed. (Stuttgart: Hausmann, 1835) p. 16

• “Let me bleed, watch me die I got golden teeth, she got bright green eyes She's my fantasy, she only comes at night She don't know 'bout me, what goes on inside I'll let you feel my pain if you would get me high Had to make my name, I had to break my spine Now I'm on my way, I'm just lookin' for pain Bitches fuck me the same, it don't matter the place, okay I just wanna die by my mama's side.”

  Lil Peep (1996–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “People generally die because they are alone or because they have entered into a game that is too big. They often die because they do not have the necessary alliances, because they lack support. In Sicily, the Mafia strikes at the servants of the State whom the latter has failed to protect.”

  Giovanni Falcone (1939–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The immortals do not die, even when they do die.”

  Miguel Serrano (1917–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We know we are going to die. We know that every person now alive will one day die. It is one of the great paradoxes of being human, that, armed with this awareness of our own mortality, we continue to behave as it will not happen.”

  Pinky Agnew (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Die Schwierigkeiten, die einer direkten griechischen Entlehnung aus Indien entgegenstehen, fallen bei der Annahme von Babylon als gemeinsames Ursprungsgebiet ohne weiteres weg.”

  Otto E. Neugebauer (1899–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “So wie die Tiefe des Meers allezeit ruhig bleibt, die Oberfläche mag noch so wüten, ebenso zeiget der Ausdruck in den Figuren der Griechen bei allen Leidenschaften eine große und gesetzte Seele.”

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) said by 1768 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sick people die; and healthy babies replace them. But if the economic base dies, the babies also die, or even fail to be born. The bigger threat is, therefore, that on biological diversity, on which indigenous and local communities completely depend for survival. So, we had to do something on biosafety.”

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (1940–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For the dear old Flag I die, Mother, dry your weeping eye; For the honor of our land And the dear old Flag I die.”

  George Cooper (poet) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: For the Dear Old Flag, I Die", chorus (c. 1863). Music by Stephen Foster. Lyrics attributed to Cooper in Irwin Silber (ed.) Songs of the Civil War (New York: Dover Publications, 1995) pp. 12, 27–29. Compare: "The Dying …

• “Wo ist dein Selbst zu finden? Immer in der tiefsten Bezauberung, die du erlitten hast. ... Die ganze Seele ist nie beisammen, außer in der Entzückung.”

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Buch der Freunde: Tagebuch-Aufzeichnungen (1922), in Selected Prose, trans. Mary Hottinger and James Stern, intr. Hermann Broch (New York: Pantheon, 1952) p. 356

• “Um zu siegen, müssen wir versuchen, an der Stelle des Zusammenstoßes die Stärkeren zu sein. Dazu haben wir aber nur Aussicht, wenn wir die Operation bestimmen, nicht wenn wir in passiver Aufstellung abwarten, was der Feind über uns beschlossen hat.”

  Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In Gerhard Ritter, Der Schlieffenplan: Kritik eines Mythos (Munich: Rudolf Oldenbourg, 1956) p. 36. Translated by Andrew and Eva Wilson, The Schlieffen Plan: Critique of a Myth (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958) pt.…

• “‘Look, Mene, you are my only son. Even I suffered plenty before I born you. I have born six of you, and you are the only one still alive. I want you to live and bury me when! die. I don’t want to die like chicken, no burial. I have no father, no mother, no brother, no sister. You are my father, my mother, my brother and my sister. Do you hear me? Don’t go and think of foolish thing.”

  Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little.”

  William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When our friends die, in proportion as we loved them, we die with them—we go with them. We are not wholly of the earth.”

  William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The generous die but their kindness remains, O happy he who drove this chariot (of kindness), The unjust die and their injustice remains, Alas for the soul that commits deceit and fraud.”

  Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Forward, my brave fellows, forward! Carry me into the fort. If I am to die, I want to die at the head of the column!”

  Anthony Wayne (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich überflüssing macht.”

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers.”

  Gustav Mahler (misattributed) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Tradition is not the cult of ashes, it is the transmission of fire. (Quoted by @Arch_Revival_ 5:42 PM · May 29, 2020).

• “For ten years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy; but now the war was over, The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art.”

  Michael Powell (director) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “An erster Stelle ist diese Menschenliebe die Ausdrucksform einer verdrängten Ablehnung, eines Gegenimpulses gegen Gott. Sie ist die Scheinform eines verdrängten Gotteshasses! Immer wieder führt sie sich mit der Wendung ein, es sei doch „nicht genug Liebe in der Welt“, als daß man einen Teil noch an außermenschliche Wesen abgeben könnte—eine echte von Ressentiment diktierte Wendung!”

  Max Scheler (attributed) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Abhandlungen und Aufsätze (1915), p. 184

• “Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you too will die.”

  Hollow Horn Bear (misattributed) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attributed to John Hollow Horn, 1932, in

• “Alicia Silverstone: "I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me." .”

  Madonna (entertainer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ich besitze von ihm eine seiner Sinfonien, die ich zur Erinnerung an eines der größten Genies, die ich gekannt habe, aufbewahre. Ich habe von ihm nur dieses einzige Werk, weiß aber, dass er noch anderes Vortreffliches geschrieben hat.”

  Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792) said by 1792 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But thousands die without or this or that,-- Die, and endow a college or a cat.”

  Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source

• “If you're not working, you might as well be dead.”

  T.C. Boyle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.”

  T.C. Boyle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The song that from the heart would spring Is dead for want of echoing.”

  Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.”

  Thomas Heywood (1574–1641) first seen 1635 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635). Compare: "Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did 'go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him", Robert Burton, An…

  Also quoted by: Philip Massinger

• “A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that’s never read,— To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.”

  Thomas Dekker (writer) first seen 1599 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Old Fortunatus (1599).

  Also quoted by: Ben Jonson

• “When a daffodil I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead; Lastly, safely buried.”

  Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dead falls the cause if once the hand be mute; But let that speak, the client gets the suit.”

  Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But if that golden age would come again, And Charles here rule, as he before did reign; ... I should delight to have my curls half drown'd In Tyrian dews, and head with roses crown'd; And once more yet, ere I am laid out dead, Knock at a star with my exalted head.”

  Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Here she lies, in bed of spice, Fair as Eve in Paradise: For her beauty it was such Poets could not praise too much. Virgins, come, and in a ring Her supremest requiem sing; Then depart, but see ye tread Lightly, lightly, o'er the dead.”

  Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine”

  Peter Weiss (1916–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Especially in the beginning of the war, the guys who became good soldiers, and good infantry men sort of had to accept that they were dead — that they weren't going to get out of it. The statistics were so much their enemy that there wouldn't be much chance that in four or five years, that they would survive it. Some did... and in fact most of the men who got in combat did survive it.”

  James Jones (1921–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “All quiet along the Potomac to-night, No sound save the rush of the river, While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead— The picket ’s off duty forever.”

  Ethel Lynn Beers (1827–1879) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" (first published in Harper's Weekly on November 30, 1861 under the title The Picket Guard).

• “though every friend be fled, Lo! Envy waits, that lover of the dead.”

  Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) said by 1740 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.”

  Brooke Fraser (born 1983) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Albertine", in Albertine (2006)

• “How can a mother's heart feel cold or weary Knowing her dearer self safe, sheltered, warm? How can she feel her road too dark or dreary, Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm? How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding, Our God forgot, our holy saints defied; But can a mother hear her dead child pleading, And thrust those little angel hands aside?”

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, —His Mother, who was patient, being dead.”

  Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I'm king of the dead—and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin— I gather them in, I gather them in!”

  Park Benjamin Sr. (1809–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Old Sexton, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• “So turn your ears, you musicians, to silence Because they only come out when it's quiet, Their tails brushing over your eyelids... Oh, wake up, sleepers, and rise from the dead!”

  Aaron Weiss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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