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

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Thomas Fuller

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

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
George Burns

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
George Burns

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
James Joyce

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
Euripides

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

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

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
Guru Nanak

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
David Foster Wallace

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Jim Valvano

It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel Johnson

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel Johnson

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Thomas B. Macaulay

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.
John Derek

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
Jerry Garcia

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber