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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

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
Mary J. Blige

Music, Power, Strength

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

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

Learn, Debt, Pay

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, Love, Another

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

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

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

Live, Nothing, Rage

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson

Good, Men, Death

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

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

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
Brandon Lee

Life, Everything, Small

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

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

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi

Death, Fear, Thought

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

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

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

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

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

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Why, Reason, Reply

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

Great, Fail, Cause

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

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

Dreams, End, Greatness

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Malachy McCourt

Waiting, Person, Taking

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

Fish, Rise, Falling

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

Happiness, Live, Jesus

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
Sitting Bull

Love, Father, Country

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