Die Quotes
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Es gibt Menschen mit leuchtendem und Menschen mit glänzendem Verstande. Die ersten erhellen ihre Umgebung, die zweiten verdunkeln sie.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
I'd rather die than go to heaven.
Brendon Small
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The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.
Lao Tzu -
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 -
But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
Catherynne M. Valente -
It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!
Andre Chenier -
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
Elisabeth Elliot -
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
Jonathan Franzen -
As far as I can tell, you remain a mystery to yourself until the day you die.
Andrew Kaufman -
The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.
Joe Biden -
Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Der Gescheitere gibt nach! Ein unsterbliches Wort. Es begründet die Weltherrschaft der Dummheit.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
Don't flounder in the preambles of the past Wounded with regrets; don't let autumnal Nostalgia blind you to the sounds and scents Of the present's Spring; you're a native of The pellucid moment, make it infinite beyond The curving snake of passing time and space. Learn to die in the infinitely elusive moment.
Rumi
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Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
Anthony Trollope -
Most volcanologists die in bed.
Katia and Maurice Krafft -
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
Seneca the Younger -
Anyone can die. It's living that requires courage.
Nobuhiro Nishiwaki -
I care about my work, but I don't care about getting it wrong. The more you do, the more you realise nobody's going to die.
Maxine Peake
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Man was born to die. What did it mean? Hanging around and waiting. Waiting for the ‘A train.’ Waiting for a pair of big breasts on some August night in a Vegas hotel room. Waiting for the mouse to sing. Waiting for the snake to grow wings. Hanging around.
Charles Bukowski -
Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.
Martin Luther -
Without challenges we would literally wither and die which also would be perfect.
Bryan Kest