Die Quotes
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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
Saint Augustine
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One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
John Milton
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I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.
Amy Sedaris
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Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stars have their moments then they die.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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'We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,' said the witch, 'or die of despair.'
Philip Pullman
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I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
Shania Twain
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If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.
Andrew Weil
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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
Peter Greenaway
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You never know when you're going to die in the show - it's kind of funny when you say that out of context, "I don't know when I'm going to die" - but you don't have time to have an ego or an attitude because you just get the chop.
Alanna Masterson
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There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
Winifred Holtby
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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
William Faulkner
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I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they’ve never been born again.
Adrian Rogers
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night...
George Bernard Shaw
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What can they suffer that do not fear to die?
Plutarch
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Der Zufall ist die in Schleier gehüllte Notwendigkeit.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot hasn't changed for centuries. I shouldn't need to know any more details, any more history, in order to decide if my food tastes good or not.
David Fahrenthold
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He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.
William Blake
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
Leslie Fiedler