I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov

When we can't dream any longer we die.
Emma Goldman

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
Eddie Izzard

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.
Quentin Tarantino

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
Sojourner Truth

I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.
Cleveland Abbe

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan of Arc

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan of Arc

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Vittorio Alfieri

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
Vittorio Alfieri

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

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
Gore Vidal

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal

For tis not in mere death that men die most.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
Louis Farrakhan

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Jack Kevorkian