Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand Russell

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

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
Richard Pryor

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
Richard Pryor

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
Richard Pryor

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.
Gene Simmons

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle

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

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
Thurgood Marshall

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno