I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.
Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.
I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.
Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.
To retire is to die.
I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
When you die, we go back to the white energy of all the white energy: white heat that's flung against the sky and becomes a star.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.
I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
Given enough time, polar bears might migrate off the Arctic ice, evolve darker coats, find a different diet, and thrive in a new, warmer climate. But if the ice on which they depend disappears in a few decades, they are likely to die.
I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.
Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
No parents deserve to see their only child die.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
