Dies Quotes - Page 13

• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  Harlan Ellison

  Belief

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Deathbird Stories”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Memories, Men, Long

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• It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Causes, Easier, Martyr

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• Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Swings

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• Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
  And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
  For who would live so petty and unblest
  That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
  Rather than, screened by safe majority,
  Preserve his little life to little end,
  And never raise a rebel cry!

  John Galsworthy

  Sky, Majority, Rebel

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics

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• And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous,
  He must die a little death each morning,
  He must swallow his toad and study his vomit
  as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Morning, Poetry, Toads

  Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  World, Mortality, Form

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.243, New Directions Publishing

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• If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

  Claude McKay

  Dignity, Spots, Hog

  Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Fighting, Feminism, Slavery

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• When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

  Anne Michaels

  Men, Glasses, Secret

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.114, Emblem Editions

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• In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

  Idi Amin

  Country, Sacrifice, Uganda

  Attributed in "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations" by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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• Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Emotional, Sick, Minutes

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• The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

  Larry Kramer

  Media, America, People

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• We're all going to die.

  Elizabeth Edwards

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• We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

  Philip Gibbs

  Lying, World, Rotting

  Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

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• A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

  Robert Emmet

  Memories, Men, Mind

  Charles Phillips, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Robert Emmet (1840). “Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan”, p.365

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• I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

  Charles A. Beard

  Men, Challenges, Humanity

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• I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

  Sid Vicious

  Feelings, Knows

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

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• It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!

  Thomas Chatterton

  Pride, Alternatives, Unconquerable Will

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• Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

  Anthony Anderson

  Firsts, Actors, Able

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• There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

  Gus Van Sant

  Might, Way, Overcoming

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2011.

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• In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

  Polly Toynbee

  Years, Support, Catholic

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• People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

  Polly Toynbee

  People, Want, Longing

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

  Kristen Bell

  Thinking, Honor, Trying

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• I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.

  Melanie Brown

  Art, Two, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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