Die Young Quotes - Page 2

• Only the young die good.

  Oliver Herford

  Death, Dying, Young

  Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.22, BookRix

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• When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

  Eric Hoffer

  Greek, Youth, God Love

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• 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

  Stupid, Athlete, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.5, Grove Press

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• The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

  John Barrymore

  Life, Dying, Use

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!

  Andre Chenier

  Sweet, Illusion, Young

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• There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

  Lewis Black

  Life, Real, Two

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• Too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

  Marty Feldman

  Growing Up, Young, Grows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Leaving, Glory

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• Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Thinking, Dust

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• All geniuses die young.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Want, Young, Myth

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• Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

  James Taylor

  Giving Up, Slow Down, Young

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• I say eat fast and die young.

  Cory Monteith

  Young, Dies

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Grieve not that I die young.
  Is it not well to pass away
  ere life hath lost its brightness?

  Lady Flora Hastings

  Sad, Grieving, Passing Away

  Swan Song

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• Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Long, Matter

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1906). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Live fast, die young.

  Ed Westwick

  Young, Live Fast, Dies

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• He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment.
  [Lat., Quem dii diligunt,
  Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

  Plautus

  Death, Perception, God Love

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• Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.

  Joy Behar

  Weight, Skinny, Killing

  Joy Behar (1999). “Joy Shtick or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does it Come with Attachments”, Hyperion

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• The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

  Paul Dickson

  Age, Comfort, Realization

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  I want to die young at a ripe old age.

  Ashley Montagu

  Inspirational, Life, Age

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• I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

  Drake

  Death, Humble, Thinking

  Song: Light Up

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• I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, Done, Said

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• Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Poetry, Soul

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• Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Thinking, Age

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• Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking pelt.

  Richard Jeni

  Animal, Live In The Moment, Littles

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