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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac

Life, Great, Hope

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

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John Ruskin

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Alexander Pope

Hope, Through, Nor

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey

And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope

Live, Nothing, Rage

They that die by famine die by inches.
Matthew Henry

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

Learn, Debt, Pay

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal

Living, Earth, Both

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Samuel Butler

Him, Once, Anyone

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Samuel Butler

Off, Once, Leave

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

Husband, Jealous, Expect

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
B. R. Ambedkar

Men, Idea, Both

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

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon

Born, Natural, Painful

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.
Demetri Martin

Fun, Sometimes, Times

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Become, Last, Question

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

Life, Alive, Ready

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

Wish, Knew, Remembered

They never fail who die in a great cause.
Lord Byron

Great, Fail, Cause

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.
Sid Vicious

Feeling, Before, Why

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

May, Born, Order

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
William Alexander

Life, Courage, Alone

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

Dreams, End, Greatness

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

Alone, Nice, Care

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton

Live, Sometimes, Afraid

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide

Fish, Rise, Falling

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison

Honor, Ten, Thousand

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Horace

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.
Sid Vicious

Before, Wanted, Lived

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