Dies Quotes - Page 37

• Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Eye, Roots

  'Outlandish Proverbs' (1640) no. 420

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• Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

  Sophocles

  Proud, Birth

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.

  Norman Mailer

  Ready, Ready To Die

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.389, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Buddhism, Order, Heaven

  Interview with Steve Lafreniere, www.vice.com. December 02, 2008.

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• When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.

  John Galsworthy

  Principles, Married, Precaution

  1906 The Man of Property, pt.1, ch.1.

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• O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.

  Robert Bridges

  Looks, Youth, Tire

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Religious, Poor, Mortals

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.10932, Delphi Classics

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• "You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die."
  "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...]
  "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Children, Yams

  "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, Fawcett Premier edition, (p. 64), 1969.

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• A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Men, Water

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Creative, Want, Done

  "Comedian Bob Monkhouse dies". news.bbc.co.uk. December 29, 2003.

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• I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Dad, Sleep, Passengers

  "Bob Monkhouse" by Dennis Barker, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2003.

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• I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

  Sitting Bull

  Believe, Men, White Man

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• This is a good day to die. Follow me!

  Sitting Bull

  Good Day, Follow Me

  "Campaigns of General Custer in the North-west, and the Final Surrender of Sitting Bull". Book by Judson Elliott Walker, 1881.

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• Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

  Peter Porter

  Fate, Too Late, World

  Peter Porter (1992). “The chair of Babel”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

  John Masefield

  Death, Doors

  'Pompey The Great' (1910) act 2

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• Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Football, School, Kids

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

  Campbell McGrath

  Interesting, Culture, Alive

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• I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

  Channing Tatum

  Notebook, Wife, Promise

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.

  David Nasaw

  Men, Mad, Idiot

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• The saying is, life is short, but what if it's not? But if life is short, is this how you would like to spend your last days? And if life is long, is this how you want to spend 50, 60, or 70 years? Being ashamed? Being quiet? Hoping no one notices you? Not telling the truth? Walking around heavy? If I die in my sleep tonight, God forbid, I am happy with how I've lived my life. I've lived it truthfully.

  Karrine Steffans

  Life Is Short, Sleep, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.

  Woody Allen

  Running, Morning, Writing

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath

  Dante Alighieri

  Lost, Breaths

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.284, Penguin

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• Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

  Karl Albrecht

  Paradigm, Hard, Ifs

  Karl Albrecht (1992). “The only thing that matters: bringing the power of the customer into the center of your business”, Harpercollins

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• The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we’ll all die.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  Asking For Help, Oil, People

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• Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This is an explosive region, and more US intervention means more people will die. We should be choosing peace - not a new conflict. More so than anyone else, my supporters know that America cannot afford another unlawful, immoral war in the Middle East. Stand with me and tell President Obama to stay out of Syria.

  Ron Paul

  War, Mean, America

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