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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Ovid

Cool, Fire, May

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
Desmond Tutu

Peace, After, Same

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Live, Repetition

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
Sonny Bono

Money, Else, Somebody

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
Dalton Trumbo

Life, Live, Sunday

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

Live, Less, Wanna

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. Auden

Why, Ask, Asked

How can I die? I'm booked.
George Burns

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus

Yourself, Thought, Away

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Gail Sheehy

Life, Before, Another

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
Fred Hampton

Struggle, Off, High

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Henny Youngman

Men, Before, Why

I'm not afraid to die.
Vivien Leigh

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.
Gene Simmons

Life, Today, Through

I can't die but once.
Harriet Tubman

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
Robert Plant

Music, Give, Financial

I want to die painting.
Paul Cezanne

I have sworn to die painting.
Paul Cezanne

Painting, Sworn

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
Marilyn Manson

Time, Death, Live

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing, Kids, Seriously

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
Christopher Hitchens

Yourself, Alcohol, Everyone

I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.
Sebastian Vettel

Change, Happy, Care

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
Doug Coupland

Strong, Brain, Memories

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.
Christopher Hitchens

Everyone, Millions, Sometime

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher Hitchens

Live, Living, Acting

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.
Mary Matalin

Follow, Advance, Retreat

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
Drew Barrymore

Fear, Nice, Feeling

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Perfect, Place

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
Jerry Saltz

After, Against, Painting

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