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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage, Strong, Live

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke

Good, Read, Middle

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

Live, Nothing, Frightful

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

Courage, Cause, Asked

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
John Barrymore

Good, Living, Young

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
Richard Dawkins

Small, Sun, Ourselves

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Afraid, Happens

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard

Heart, Long, Since

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon

Music, Until, Grow

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
R. A. Salvatore

Trying, Wrong, Tell

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Og Mandino

Work, Today, Live

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats

Love, Truth, Before

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
Chuck Palahniuk

Live, Choice, Breath

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
Elizabeth Edwards

Time, Positive, Attitude

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

We might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie Chaplin

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.
Joyce Meyer

Experience, Live, Enemy

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Billy Graham

Life, Old, Grow

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Pablo Picasso

Down, Around, Ship

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Consider, Dispute, Enraged

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret Mead

Later, Retire, Sooner

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Afraid, Happens

We die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere

Time, Long, Once

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes

Christmas, Knew, Bed

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
Pope John XXIII

Humble, Poor, Proud

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
Mary Kay Ash

Life, Live, Someone

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

Courage, Live, Desire

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

Truth, Past, Nothing

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