I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey Newton

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. Wilson

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
Eddie Murphy

It was either therapy or die.
Mickey Rourke

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black Elk

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
James M. Barrie

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Thomas Hobbes

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
Tecumseh

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Bill Watterson

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
Sam Kinison

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian

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

To die will be an awfully big adventure.
James M. Barrie

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.
George Lincoln Rockwell

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge