I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West

I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.
Mae West

When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

When I die, just keep playing the records.
Jimi Hendrix

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Jimi Hendrix

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.
Jimi Hendrix

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson