Dies Quotes - Page 23

• Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Easier

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Littles, Matter, Way

  Marie Bashkirtseff, Phyllis Howard Kernberger, Katherine Kernberger (1997). “I am the most interesting book of all: the diary of Marie Bashkirtseff”, Chronicle Books Llc

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.

  Polybius

  Country, Memories, Men

  Polybius, Friedrich Hultsch (1889). “The Histories”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

  Wyndham Lewis

  Ideas, Dying, Sound

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled, pt.1, ch.1.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Live Life, Men, Self

  24 Copy quote

• A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

  Michael Flanders

  Sloth, Ease, Indolence

  7 Copy quote

• If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.

  Asger Jorn

  Mind, Orchestra, Nerves

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Hero, Men, Determined

  201 Copy quote

• Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Disease, Terrible, Egotism

  278 Copy quote

• To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

  Joan D. Chittister

  May, Virtue

  7 Copy quote

• It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.

  Chris Cagle

  Children, Free Education, Belief

  9 Copy quote

• Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.

  Ruth Carter Stapleton

  Time, Past, Opportunity

  9 Copy quote

• What I want is to have no enemies when I die. Right now, I seem to have a lot of them.

  Nicola Horlick

  Enemy, Want, Right Now

  4 Copy quote

• Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.

  Julian Simon

  Moving, Past, Hands

  12 Copy quote

• The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.

  Catherine Bertini

  Real, Opportunity, Issues

  4 Copy quote

• To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

  Adyashanti

  Emptiness, Mystery, Empty

  5 Copy quote

• I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

  Ariel Pink

  Iphone, Giving, Trying

  Song: Picture Me Gone, Album: Pom Pom, 2014

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.

  Maria Gowen Brooks

  Sweet, Perfect, Rose

  9 Copy quote

• As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.

  Mahlon Hoagland

  Children, Ignorant, Curiosity

  7 Copy quote

• When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Inspiration, Imitation, Thrive

  9 Copy quote

• She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason.

  Saint Basil

  Justice, Abortion, Fetus

  5 Copy quote

• Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources

  Jewel

  Cancer, War, Years

  10 Copy quote

• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Suicide, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Eye, Aging, Natural

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.114, Sarah Orne Jewett

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Men, Desire

  Sir Winston Churchill (1956). “Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania”, Random

  7 Copy quote

  Show source