Ready To Die Quotes

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

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• Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Death, Wise, Men

  'Fables' bk. 8 (1678-9) 'La Mort et le Mourant'.

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• Love is my religion - I could die for it.

  John Keats

  Love, Passion, Romance

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130

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• If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.

  Rickson Gracie

  Art, Ready, Dies

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• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  Zachary Taylor

  Friendship, Regret, Presidential

  Zachary Taylor, Smith PYNE (1850). “Obituary Addresses delivered on the occasion of the death of Z. Taylor ... in the Senate and House of Representatives ... with the funeral Semon by the Rev. S. Pyne, etc”, p.8

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• It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

  Edna Ferber

  Too Late, Realizing, Terrible

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.160, Booklassic

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• Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

  Ja Rule

  Gun, Reality, Shadow

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

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

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• When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

  Sebastian Junger

  Giving Up, Let It Go, Hanging On

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• Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Logic, Ready

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus”, p.69, 谷月社

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• I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Waiting, Praying, Ready

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• Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Struggle, Love Is, Want

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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• If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

  Charles de Lint

  Ready, Dies, Ifs

  "Svaha". Book by Charles de Lint, 1989.

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• I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt
  Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out.
  Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me
  I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Rap, Hip Hop, Doubt

  Song: The Documentary, Album: The Documentary

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• Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Revenge, Retribution, Dies

  Song: Unbelieveable

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• What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Brother, Children

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• I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.

  Rosa Parks

  Giving, Consent, Ready

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• He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Love, Dream, Laughing

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• To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

  Tom Robbins

  Giving Up, Paradox, Ready

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

  Eric Hoffer

  Facts, Opinion, Ready

  Notebook entry in 1955. "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell, Harper's Magazine, harpers.org. July 2005.

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• Retiring is getting ready to die.

  Rodger Ward

  Retiring, Ready, Dies

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• Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Death, Regret, Fall

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• Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.

  Criss Jami

  Train Of Thought, People, Feelings

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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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, Dies

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

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