All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. Conrad Aiken
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!William Shakespeare
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. Harold Brodkey
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. George William Curtis
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. Magic Johnson
I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.' Jimmy Piersall
I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions. Evander Holyfield
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. Anthony Bourdain
I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go. Anthony Bourdain
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.Martin Luther King