T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.”
“To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage”
“To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?”
“To die for a purpose is to live for eternal life”
“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
“To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.”
“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”
“To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume Two
“To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.”
“To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!”
“To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.”
“To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.”
Source: Ghost Roads
“To die for society is to live for eternity.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.”
Source: To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton
“To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.”
“To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!”
“To die for the very thing that you’re saving is far less a death and far more what it is to live.”
“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
Source: 1984
“To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.”
“To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“To die in the fire of war is easy. To live in the light of peace, much harder.”
Source: Aurora's End
“To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.”
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
“To die is landing on some distant shore.”
“To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.”
“To die is nothing, but to live with purpose and integrity, that's something”
Source: The Book of Unholy Mischief
“To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.”
Source: The Man from the Broken Hills
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
“To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition
“To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“To die is our heavy portion, but, oh, let us die with life about us; when our cold hearts cease to beat, let warm hearts be beating near; let our last look be upon the bounds which God has set to his own bright skies, and not on stone walls and bars of iron!”
Source: Nicholas Nickleby
“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.”
Source: King Henry IV, Part 1
“To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.”
Source: True Spirituality
“To die is to depart, to go away from these things forever and become one with the generations that have preceded us since the beginning of time, a whispered memory in the bones and whiskers of the generations to come.”
Source: Thomasina
“To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.”
“To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems
“To die of yearning for something you will never experience”
“To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.”
“To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep”
Source: We Who Are About To...
“To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.”
“To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?”
Source: Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.”
“To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.”
Source: HER AT THE NEW YORKER
“To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.”
“To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.”
“To die this way seems so random, so trivial. I have been robbed of meaning before being robbed of life. To die in darkness, alone -- for what purpose was I ever alive. It is as if I emerged from darkness into delusion, then sank back into darkness forever.”
Source: Dark Orbit