To Die For Quotes

As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.
- Jodi Picoult

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
- Louisa May Alcott

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

Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley."
"Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.
- Cassandra Clare

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
- Stephen Ambrose

It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.
- Ilona Andrews

You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist.
She snarled. Heh.
- Ilona Andrews

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
- Bruce Barton

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
- Albert Camus

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
- Albert Camus

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
- Ambrose Bierce

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
- Anne Boleyn

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
- Jorge Luis Borges

A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.
- Ben Bova

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
- Jack Bowman

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.
- Libba Bray

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
- Albert Einstein

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you
- Jacqueline Carey

Here is another one ready to die for you, Roland. What great wrong did you ever do that you should inspire such terrible loyalty in so many?
- Stephen King

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.
- Shane Claiborne

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.
- Terry Pratchett

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
- Terry Pratchett

Not to marry, know love, or bind, their fate;
Your line to die for never seed shall take.
Death and torment to those caught in their wake,
unless each son finds his forechosen mate...
For his true lady alone his life and heart can save.
- Kresley Cole

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
- Pierre Corneille

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
- James Darcy

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
- Kurt Vonnegut

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.
- Christopher Dawson

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
- Don Delillo

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.
- Graham Greene

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
- Emily Dickinson

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
- Horace

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
- Horace

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.
- Rick Warren

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
- Umberto Eco

I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.
- Martin Luther King Jr

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
- Paul Eldridge

I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.
- Ralph Ellison

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
- Ralph Ellison

When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for.
- Anne Fadiman

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
- Victor Hugo

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.
- George R R Martin

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
- Edith Hamilton

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.
- Laurell K Hamilton

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- Dag Hammarskjold

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.
- Daryl Hannah

I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest. If, at the end of that hour, you have not come to me, have not given yourself up, then battle recommences. This time, I shall enter the fray myself, Harry Potter, and I shall find you, and I shall punish every last man, woman, and child who has tried to conceal you from me. One hour. -Voldemort
- J K Rowling

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
- Frank Herbert

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
- Henry Home

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
- Homer

Shake hands, we shall never be friends; give over:
I only vex you the more I try.
All's wrong that ever I've done and said,
And nought to help it in this dull head:
Shake hands, goodnight, goodbye.
But if you come to a road where danger
Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share,
Be good to the lad that loves you true
And the soul that was born to die for you,
And whistle and I'll be there.
- A E Housman

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
- Zora Neale Hurston

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.
- P D James

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
- Criss Jami

I believe in love at first sight, and I believe that's what we've got going here. I was willing to die for you. I'm sure as hell not going to pass up a chance to live with you.
- Tara Janzen

Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.
- Christopher Judge

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another's lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.
- Sebastian Junger

I'm willing to die for my beliefs, but over the course of a lifetime and not all at once right now.
- Jarod Kintz

I'm willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it.
- Jarod Kintz

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
- Florynce R Kennedy

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
- John F Kerry

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.
- Andrew Klavan

There's no such thing as one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
- Mercedes Lackey

I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for. Unafraid to say I Love You.
- Jonathan Larson

The rescue of drowning men is... a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for. It seems to me that all political duties (among which I include military duties) are of this kind. A man may have to die for our country, but no man must, in an exclusive sense, live for his country.
- C S Lewis

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
- Douglas Macarthur

His eyes defiant and smoldering, Braden held his sword aimed at the MacDouglas's throat. "To get to her, you'll have to come through me."
"You want to die for her?" Robby asked.
"Aye," Braden said without hesitation. He glanced at her and for the first time she saw the love in his eyes. "I will die for her.
- Kinley Macgregor

Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.
- Norman Mailer

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
- Malcolm X

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
- Marilyn Manson

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
- Giuseppe Mazzini

There wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar.
- Colum Mccann

The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap and goes for a long walk
- Frank Mccourt

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
- H L Mencken

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
- H L Mencken

Earthly love... is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God's love, God's voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.
- Donald Miller

Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.
- Karen Marie Moning

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

He suggested I play golf, but finally agreed to give me something that, he said, "would really work"; and going to a cabinet, he produced a vial of violet-blue capsules banded with dark purple at one end, which, he said, had just been placed on the market and were intended not for neurotics whom a draft of water could calm if properly administered, but only for great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries.
- Vladimir Nabokov

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
- Azar Nafisi

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.
- Simone Weil

She was still looking down and she saw tears spill from her eyes and fall toward Damon's outstretched arms. Elena didn't know why she was crying, but part of it was sorrow for her ever having doubted him.
Because Damon wasn't just on her side. Unless she was wrong, he was willing to die for her - was courting death for her.
- L J Smith

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- George S Patton

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
- Christopher Paolini

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
- Christopher Paolini

I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)
- Elizabeth Peters

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you
- Bella Pollen

...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?
- Lou Reed

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.
- Paul Robeson

Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart."
"And on your worst days?" she had asked that night.
"Even if it's only poetry, it's poetry to live by, Sofia--poetry to die for..
- Mary Doria Russell

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
- Tupac Shakur

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
- Darren Shan

If his girl was broken, someone sure as fuck was going to die for that.
- Madeline Sheehan

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.
- Fulton J Sheen

We couldn't believe how exciting it was to be together, a pair of young Americruisers on a roll. We'd lived for just twenty-five years; we weren't planning to die for fifty more. We danced and drank and went to rock shows. Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
- Rob Sheffield

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.
- Roger Sherman

After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted e-mail back from a French professor explaining that the fact that Europeans weren't prepared to die for anything was the best evidence of their superiority: they were building a post-historical utopia - a Europe it would not be necessary to die for. But sometimes you die anyway.
- Mark Steyn

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.
- Johnny Thunders

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?
- Dalton Trumbo

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
- Dalton Trumbo

So, what now? We're friends?
Yeah. If friends could be in love, but not together. In sync, but out of touch. Willing to die for each other, but unable to trust.
- Rachel Vincent

If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their cause.
- Darnell Lamont Walker

A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.
- Margaret Weis

THE BASIC CON
Those who can't find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.
Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too.
- Lew Welch

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
- George Whitefield

I need to die for the killing of those people.
- Aileen Wuornos

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
- Andrew Young