Dies Quotes - Page 8

• Men die but an idea does not.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Men, Ideas, Doe

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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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• If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

  Claudette Colbert

  Laughing, Ifs

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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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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  Fay Weldon

  Hair, Mourning, Suffering

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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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• To learn to die is an heroic work.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Death, Heroic

  Mercy Otis Warren (1790). “Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous”, p.147

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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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• I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  "Professor with a past" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2007.

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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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• 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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• Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

  Lester Bangs

  Different, Form

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

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• We're all going to die.

  Elizabeth Edwards

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• When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
  And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie
  In that vast house, common to serfs and Thanes,
  I shall not die, I shall not utterly die,
  For beauty born of beauty-- that remains.

  Madison Cawein

  Lying, Home, House

  MADISON CAWEIN (1899). “Myth and Romance”

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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 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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• Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

  Donny Osmond

  Knowing, Anxiety Disorder, Goes On

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• Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

  Henry Suso

  Men, Giving, Doctrine

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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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• The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

  Matt Taibbi

  Family, Debt, Size

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• We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

  Joko Beck

  People, Anxiety, Cover Ups

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• Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.

  Mark Batterson

  Letting Go, Prayer, God Knows

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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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• When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

  Rob Bell

  Video, Honest, Happens

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• You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

  Bram Cohen

  Tired, People, Use

  "The Bittorrent Effect" by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 1, 2005.

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