Tertullian Quotes

Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

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• Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Money
  • Die
  • Habits

• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Die
  • Living

• I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Young

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Writing
  • Food

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

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Friends
  • Die
  • Regret

• When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Die
  • Television

• Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Die

• My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed I was merely to do something towards raising a flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Live
  • May

• 'It is not right to want to die,' the Summoner said....'For the very old, the very ill, it may be. But life is given us. Surely it’s wrong not to hold and treasure that great gift!''Death also is given us,' said the king.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Great
  • May

• 'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Die

• An das Leben der Studenten tritt die Frage nach seiner bewußten Einheit heran. ... Das Auszeichnende im Studentenleben ist in der Tat der Gegenwille, sich einem Prinzip zu unterwerfen, mit der Idee sich zu durchdringen. Der Name der Wissenschaft dient vorzüglich, eine tiefeingesessene, verbürgerte Indifferenz zu verbergen.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Trying
  • Die

• 'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit,And then we shall die no more.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Die

• The more you love, the more you suffer.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Suffering

• A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Law

• Some 3,500 Muslims now serve in the U.S. military. The overwhelming majority of them are loyal Americans who see no conflict between their personal religious duty and service to their country. But there can no place in our military for those persons of any faith who do. America has now seen the horrors of what 'diversity at any cost' can lead to.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Country
  • America
  • Faith

• General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Life
  • Men
  • Opinion

• Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

  

  Tertullian
  • Die
  • Pleasure