Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. Mencken

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
Ambrose Bierce

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon

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

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
Eric Hoffer

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein

And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Alexander Pope

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow

I can't die but once.
Harriet Tubman

You'll be free or die!
Harriet Tubman

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
Bill O'Reilly

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Susan B. Anthony