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Die Quotes

What people say they'd live, and die, for.

Some die quotes here are about craft rather than mortality — a musician describes a piano-and-voice foundation strong enough to build a whole career on. For more on beginnings and endings together, see Death quotes.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Quotes by Tom Clancy

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.

Quotes by Tom Brokaw

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

Quotes by Tom Allen

I live or die by how well I act.

Quotes by Tobias Menzies

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

Quotes by Titus Flavius Vespasian

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.

Quotes by Tionne Watkins

We can still be sexy and vibrant, fashionable, classy, and fly until the day we die!

Quotes by Tina Knowles

I will always be fighting in one form or another until the day I die.

Quotes by Tim Kennedy

'Malvolio' is the one show of mine that will not die. I've performed it more than 200 times all over the place.

Quotes by Tim Crouch

I'll try anything once. It's always good to see peoples' faces surprised - surprised that I race, or that I surf, that I trekked through the Himalayas. As long as I don't die, I'm good.

Quotes by Tika Sumpter

At the end of the day, it's not like were not going to die. It's not like there is this one guy that's, like, 900.

Quotes by Thundercat

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

Quotes by Thurgood Marshall

'Die a Happy Man' was one of those that, when I wrote it and sent it to my label, their response was, 'This is a career record.' I was like, 'Why do you think that?' I think the stars aligned.

Quotes by Thomas Rhett

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

Thomas Mann

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Thomas Mann

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.

Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

Quotes by Thomas Gold Appleton

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Quotes by Thomas Campion

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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

Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote here about a musical foundation people "live and die by"?
Yes — one describes it this way: "that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong." It uses "die" figuratively, to express deep commitment to a creative process. For more on the more literal side of the word, see Death quotes.
What's this "Opus Die" reference about?
One speaker mentions it as a pop-culture reference point: "I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die." It's presented here exactly as the speaker said it — a comment on how fiction can shape, and limit, what people think they know about something.
Is there a quote about wanting to keep doing something until the end?
Yes — a passionate one: "I feel the ticking clock. And at times, I've said if I don't dance, I'd rather die." It shows how deeply tied to their craft the speaker feels, treating it as essential to who they are. For more quotes about urgency and time running out, browse Dying quotes.
Is there a quote about personal identity here?
Yes — one speaker states their own political identity plainly: "I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing." It's presented here simply as the speaker's own self-described stance, without any added commentary. For related quotes about steadfastness over time, see Died quotes.
What's the common thread across these "die" quotes?
Each uses "die" to express intensity — commitment to craft, curiosity about a cultural reference, urgency about time, and firmness of identity — rather than being literally about death. For more, check out Dies quotes.

Others get more personal, from a dancer who says they'd rather not go on if they couldn't dance, to someone stating a lifelong political identity they don't expect to abandon. Continue with Dying quotes or Died quotes.

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