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After I die I am coming back to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello. And I won't let a one of you in.

—Toscanini, Arturo

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year isgoing, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

—Tennyson

It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.

—Bible (NewTestament)

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

—Bible (NewTestament)

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

—Pope, Alexander

We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not whyö What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

—Flecker,James Elroy

Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Yantes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma. I am a sincere man from where the palm tree grows; and before I die I want to loose my verses from my heart.

—Mart|¤  ,Jose¤

C'est bon pour les hommes de croire aux ide¤  es et de mourir pour elles. It isgood for people to believe in ideas and die for them.

—Anouilh,Jean

   The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind, his heart blackening: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey peace in old poems.

—Jeffers, (John) Robinson

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.

—Pope, Alexander

Now this is the Law of the Jungleöas old and as true as the sky; 471

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

   Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

—Louis,Joe pseudonym of  Joseph Louis Barrow

Not onlyareselves conditional buttheydie.Eachday, we wake slightlyaltered, and the person we were yesterday is dead.

—Updike,John Hoyer

'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew In Memoriam A.H.H. Some one had blundered: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered.

—Tennyson

'People can't die, along the coast,'said Mr Peggotty, 'except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh inönot properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide.'

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die, For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

—Brown,John

That vast moth-eaten musical brocade Created to pretend we never die.

—Larkin, Philip Arthur

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him,Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

—Bible (Old Testament)

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die!

—Donne,John

Il fera demain ce qu'il fait aujourd'hui et ce qu'il fit hier; et il meurt ainsi apre'  s avoir ve¤  cu. What he does tomorrow will be what he did today and yesterday; and he shall die after having lived this way.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance!

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Iseriouslyadviseall sensitive composersto dieattheage of thirty-seven. I know I've gone through the first halcyon period, and am just about ripe for my critical damnation.

—Walton, Sir WilliamTurner

What a pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

—Addison,Joseph

The elect, the elected†theycome here bright as dimes, and die dishevelled and soft.

—Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr

'Oh,'she said,'I die each time. Do you not die?' 'No. Almost. But did thee feel the earth move?' 'Yes. As I died. Put thy arm around me, please.'

—Hemingway, Ernest Millar

It is no shame for a man to die fighting for his country. Honorius of Autun

—Homer   8c

Yas |¤ , enfermos, ojo alerta, y a ning u¤ n me¤  dico admitan; mueran de gorra, sin dar un real a la medicina. Be careful then, patients, and don't accept any doctor; die for free and do not give a single coin to medicine.

—Valle y Caviedes,Juan del

When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun roseand set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?† What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my country?

—Sitting Bull real name Tatanka Iyotake

I die happy.

—Fox, CharlesJames

You see, family life is all the life she knows: she's like a bird bornina cage, that would dieif you let it looseinthe woods.

—Shaw, George Bernard

We live ignorant and die in errancy as we lived.

—Abu'l-'Ala¤   Al-Ma'arri

Dilexi iustitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio. I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile.

—Pope Gregory VII also known as Hildebrand

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

—Amis, Sir Kingsley

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

—Aeschylus

Iacta est alea. The die is cast.

—Caesar, Irving

Die? I should say not, old fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

—Barrymore,John

O, the rare tricks of a Machiavellian! He doth not come, like a gross plodding slave, And buffet you to death; no, my quaint knave, He tickles you to death, makes you die laughing.

—Webster,John

Democracy is not a polite employer† The only way out of elective office is to get sick or die or get kicked out.

—Hoover, Herbert Clark

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

—Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the beginning is,Thou shalt die the death.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

—Swift, Graham

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

—Brodkey, Harold

The only possible regret I have isthe feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.

—Borotra,Jean

Don't die of ignorance.

—Anonymous

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!

—Burns, Robert

Look not thou on beauty's charming,ö Sit thou still when kings are arming.ö Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,ö Speak not when the people listens,ö Stop thine ear against the singer,ö From the red gold keep thy finger,ö Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,ö Easy live and quiet die.

—Scott, Sir Walter

'Tis my destiny That you must either love, or I must die.

—Ford,John

Even if I die in the service of this nation,I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood,I am sure, will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic.

—Gandhi, Indira Priyad Arshini

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

—Dryden,John

Export or die.

—Anonymous

And doomed to death, though fated not to die.

—Dryden,John

You don't need to be 'straight'to fight and die for your country.You just need to shoot straight.

—Goldwater, Barry M(orris)

   A for adrenalin, the original A-bomb, fuel and punishment of aspiration, the Enlightenment's air-burst Back when God made me, I had no script. It was better. For all the death, we also die unrehearsed. 604

—Murray, Les(lie Allan)

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky: The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.

—Herbert, George

What advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die. See Parker 638:61.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do). See Bible121:16.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild

   God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

—Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

—Appleton,Thomas Gold

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

—Defoe, Daniel

Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.

—Tennyson

Hope I die before I get old.

—Townshend, Pete

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

—Cory,William originally  WilliamJohnson

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

—Lezama Lima,Jose¤

If I advance, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me.

—Mussolini, Benito also called Il Duce [the Leader]

But mark it well, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we are all born and must die one day.I have onlycommitted this mistake of believing in you, the Americans.

—Matak, Sirik

  If I should die, thinkonly this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich dust a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

—Brooke, Rupert Chawner

I know the colour of that blood; it is arterial blood; I cannot be deceived in that colour; that drop of blood is my death-warrantöI must die.

—Keats,John

As in a month you've got to die If Ko-Ko tells us true, 'Twere empty compliment to cry 'Long life to Nanki-Poo!' But as one month you have to live As fellow-citizen, This toast with three times three we'll giveö 'Long life to youötill then!'

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

See in what peace a Christian can die.

—Addison,Joseph

The British Bourgeosie Is not born And does not die, But, if it is ill, It has a frightened look in its eyes.

—Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

—Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little

Me morire¤   en Par|¤s con aguacero, un d|¤a del cual tengo ya el recuerdo. Me morire¤   en Par|¤söy no me corroö tal vez un jueves, como es hoy, de oton‹  o. I will die in Paris with a sudden shower, a day I can already remember. I will die in Parisöand I don't budgeö maybe aThursday, like today is, in autumn.

—Vallejo, Ce¤  sarAbraham

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

—Wolfe,James

Ask me no more: what answer should I give? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye: Yet,O my friend, I will not have thee die! Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live.

—Tennyson

There was three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, And they hae sworn a solemn oath John Barleycorn should die.

—Burns, Robert

Yif thou wolte lyve frely, lerne to dye gladly.

—Anonymous

If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not burst thee.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.

—Bee, Barnard Elliot

Live and Let Die.

—Fleming, Ian Lancaster

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

—Heller,Joseph

Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am on fire and I drown.

—Labe¤  , Louise

Fish got to swim and birdsgot to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin'dat man of mine.

—Hammerstein, Oscar, II

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

—Dryden,John

[This] much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet, and, when you die, your memorydie fromthe earth for want of an epigraph.

—Sidney, Sir Philip

When the guns begin to rattle And the men to die Does the Goddess of the Battle Smile or sigh?

—Barker, George Granville

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

—Masefield,John Edward

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

   For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again: neither doth God respect any person.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Yet never can he die, but dying lives, And doth himself with sorrow new sustain, That death and life attonce unto him gives, And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

—Spenser, Edmund

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

—Clare,John

Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.

—Tennyson

Old man! 'tis not so difficult to die. Don Juan

—Rochdale

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

—Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg

One should die in silence.

—Plato

On ne meurt qu'une fois, et c'est pour si longtemps! We only die once; and it's for such a long time!

—Molie'  re,Jean Baptiste Poquelin

A new scientific truth does not triumph byconvincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

—Planck, Max Karl Ernst

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

—Wordsworth,William

Their meetings made December June, Their every parting was to die.

—Tennyson

La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans d'avance et parfois davantage. Ce sont les malheureux de la terre. Most people only die at the last moment; others begin earlyand take twenty years and sometimes more. These are the most miserable people on earth.

—Destouches

It's a mighty pleasant thing to die like this, once in a way, and hear all the good things said about ye afther you're dead and gone, when they can do you no good. 146

—Lardner Bursiquot

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

—Boulanger, Nadia

O last regret, regret can die!

—Tennyson

People can say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

—Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough, now,O L, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

—Bible (Old Testament)

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves† The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or abject submission.We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

—Washington, BookerTaliaferro

I've a great fancy to see my funeral before I die.

—Edgeworth, Maria

Un sourire est souvent l'essentiel. On est paye¤   par un sourire. On est re¤  compense¤   par un sourire.On est anime¤ par un sourire. Et la qualite¤   d'un sourire peut faire que l'on meure. A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile.One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

—Saint-Exupe¤  ry, Antoine de

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

—King, Martin LutherJr

Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.

—Gray,Thomas

Sweetest love I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter Love for me; But since that I Must die at last,'tis best, To use myself in jest Thus by feigned deaths to die.

—Donne,John

   When Jesus came to Birmingham they simply passed Him by, They never hurt a hair of him, they only let Him die. For menhadgrownmoretenderandthey wouldnot give Him pain, Theyonlyjust passeddownthestreet, and left Himinthe rain.

—'Woodbine Willie'

And the L God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LGod commanded the man, saying,Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thoushalt noteat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

—Bible (Old Testament)

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

—Dyer, Sir Edward

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

—Bible (Old Testament)

He is out of bounds now. He rejoices in man's lovely peculiar power to choose life and dieö when he leads his black soldiers to death, he cannot bend his back.

—Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr

And when war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and dieöin bed.

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. See Owen 632:57.

—Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65

   One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washe'  d it away; Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. 'Vain man,'said she,'that doest in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise, For I my self shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipe'  d out likewise.' 'Not so,'quod I,'let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where when as death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.'

—Spenser, Edmund

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, Whitman And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

—Whitman,Walt(er)

For to me to live is Christ, and to die isgain.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins dro"  le et c'est plus long. To die is nothing. Begin by living. It's less funnyand lasts longer.

—Anouilh,Jean

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

—Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)

To-morrow let us do or die!

—Campbell,Thomas

And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

—Bible (Old Testament)

'Be thine despair and sceptred care; To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.

—Gray,Thomas

   What is our life? a play of passion; Our mirth the music of division; Our mothers' wombs the tiring-houses be Where we are dressed for this short comedy. Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is, That sits and marks still who doth act amiss; Our graves that hide us from the searching sun Are like drawn curtains when the play is done. Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest, Only we die in earnestöthat's no jest.

—Raleigh, Sir Walter

  Home they brought her warrior dead. She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching said, 'She must weep or she will die.'

—Tennyson

Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant! Hail Caesar, we who are about to die salute you!

—Anonymous

: Oh, but thou dost not know What 'tis to die. :Yes, I do know, my Lord: 'Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep; A quiet resting from all jealousy, A thing we all pursue; I know besides, It is but giving over of a game, That must be lost.

—Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John

Iwenttothewoodsbecause Iwishedto live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

—Thoreau, Henry David

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porterand have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would theyall know it was me?

—Donleavy,J(ames) P(atrick)

When I die people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity.

—Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy

Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest,Iwill lodge: thy peopleshall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the L do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

—Bible (NewTestament)

As I live, saith the Lord G, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his wayand live: turnye, turnye from yourevil ways; for why will ye die,O house of Israel?

—Bible (Old Testament)

   Theyalways must be with us, or we die.

—Keats,John

Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! Ayoung man will be wiser byand by; An old man's wit may wander ere he die.

—Tennyson

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

—Weil, Simone

And a man who lay with a beast, said the Lord, would surelydie. And if he doesn't lie with a beast,Iwould have countered, he won't die?

—Heller,Joseph

And the serpent said unto the woman,Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

—Bible (Old Testament)

You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other.

—Adams,John

You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world.Then I can die.

—Armistead, Lewis Addison