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If you have nothing to die for then what are you still alive for? – Erica rhian	added by Ercrhian 1 day ago
Nobody says ‘I’ll die on this hill’ anymore. Maybe they all died on that hill. – John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com	added by robertkingson 29 days ago
I will always love God and Jesus until the day I die.” Naad-Dre Amos – Naad-Dre Amos	added by naaddre_a 2 months ago
It's okay to be alone, but not okay to die alone – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 2 months ago
Come forth, Child of Man, and DIE. – Sisyphus Prime	added by anonymous 4 months ago
Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. – Abraham Lincoln	added by Normando 5 months ago
Have you ever seen somebody die? It’s not like in the movies, not to me. You don’t close their peaceful eyes and pray for their soul. Rather their eyes are full of horror. People say taken in the flower of their youth, how sad yet these people get to escape a lifetime of hell and still people mourn. I laugh in honor of the dead. may they rot in peace. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 8 months ago
It is not tragic to die doing something you love. – Mark Foo	added by Normando 8 months ago
from ODE to a NIGHTENGALE: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, – John Keats	added by Steppenwolf 9 months ago
Happiness, I decided years ago, is unattainable and I don’t wish to seek it through the usual methods. Peace is a reflection of our souls, leaving me a non-entity. I cry because people want to feel and I join them in their fears and private agonies and I wish for death and pray for life and hope to God that God even gives a shit and before I die and receive my judgment I just want to help 1 person FEEL, to know what it is to be alive and to ease their suffering as only a tormented soul can. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 10 months ago
I have this fear that I ’m not going to have enough time, that I ’m going to die soon, i ca n’t get used to this shelling. I feel the danger. – Liudmyla Chaika	Found on New York Times 11 months ago
He said, ‘this is mine, this is my thing and I’m not going to let it die.’. – Shayla Sulack	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People [think] that they will live healthy and independently until they die, and sadly, that’s just statistically very unlikely for most people. – Caroline Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When the breast cancer mortality rate for Black women in their 40s is 27 deaths per 100,000 person-years, this means 27 out of every 100,000 Black women aged 40-49 in the US die of breast cancer during one year of follow-up. In other words, 0.027% of Black women aged 40-49 die of breast cancer each year. – Mahdi Fallah	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Let’s be clear, life without the possibility of parole is a severe punishment, you are condemned to die in a Florida prison. – Maria DeLiberato	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That level of gun violence is beyond horrific, we have to take action now. We need short-term action to end this gun violence epidemic now so fewer people die on our streets, and in our banks, and in our schools and in our churches. And for that, we need help. We need help from our friends in Frankfurt and help from our friends in Washington, DC. – Craig Greenberg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was a horrible sound to listen to someone, just literally watching somebody die in front of you, you feel so helpless. – Barb Fletcher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The main reason why I’m not surprised is that we already know that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality in our country, with Black women three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes, and the main disparities that we see in mortality, we also see in morbidity. – Zsakeba Henderson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was not surprised that everybody has a cell phone, we used to tell the story then that someday when you’re born you would be assigned a phone number. If you didn’t answer the phone, you would die. – Martin Cooper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers. – Bob Monkhouse	added by Normando 1 year ago
Why can’t we just wait until July 1? our concern is that people are going to get sick or die because they’re not going to be able to access the health care that they so desperately need. – Jen Dreiske	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are all like one family. You know, somewhere you feel your guilt, guilt that you did not die like they did. – Roman Belinsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They were kidnapped from their home. They were transported hundreds of miles from there not really sure where they went. And they came to this place of horror, some to die, many to starve and be tortured. Women to be raped before they were then forcibly taken on a journey thousands of miles from their home to be sold by so-called merchants and taken to the Americas to the Caribbean to be an enslaved people. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When I got depressed, I started talking to a psychiatrist in the high-performance sports system. And he helped me through a lot of things, i wanted to die, I did n’t want to live anymore. – Hannah Peters/Getty Images Robertson	Found on CNN 1 year ago

If you have nothing to die for then what are you still alive for?

– Erica rhian

added by Ercrhian
1 day ago

Nobody says ‘I’ll die on this hill’ anymore. Maybe they all died on that hill.

– John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com

added by robertkingson
29 days ago

I will always love God and Jesus until the day I die.” Naad-Dre Amos

– Naad-Dre Amos

added by naaddre_a
2 months ago

It's okay to be alone, but not okay to die alone

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

Come forth, Child of Man, and DIE.

– Sisyphus Prime

added by anonymous
4 months ago

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

– Abraham Lincoln

added by Normando
5 months ago

Have you ever seen somebody die? It’s not like in the movies, not to me. You don’t close their peaceful eyes and pray for their soul. Rather their eyes are full of horror. People say taken in the flower of their youth, how sad yet these people get to escape a lifetime of hell and still people mourn. I laugh in honor of the dead. may they rot in peace.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
8 months ago

It is not tragic to die doing something you love.

– Mark Foo

added by Normando
8 months ago

from ODE to a NIGHTENGALE: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain,

– John Keats

added by Steppenwolf
9 months ago

Happiness, I decided years ago, is unattainable and I don’t wish to seek it through the usual methods. Peace is a reflection of our souls, leaving me a non-entity. I cry because people want to feel and I join them in their fears and private agonies and I wish for death and pray for life and hope to God that God even gives a shit and before I die and receive my judgment I just want to help 1 person FEEL, to know what it is to be alive and to ease their suffering as only a tormented soul can.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

I have this fear that I ’m not going to have enough time, that I ’m going to die soon, i ca n’t get used to this shelling. I feel the danger.

– Liudmyla Chaika

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

He said, ‘this is mine, this is my thing and I’m not going to let it die.’.

– Shayla Sulack

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People [think] that they will live healthy and independently until they die, and sadly, that’s just statistically very unlikely for most people.

– Caroline Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the breast cancer mortality rate for Black women in their 40s is 27 deaths per 100,000 person-years, this means 27 out of every 100,000 Black women aged 40-49 in the US die of breast cancer during one year of follow-up. In other words, 0.027% of Black women aged 40-49 die of breast cancer each year.

– Mahdi Fallah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Let’s be clear, life without the possibility of parole is a severe punishment, you are condemned to die in a Florida prison.

– Maria DeLiberato

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That level of gun violence is beyond horrific, we have to take action now. We need short-term action to end this gun violence epidemic now so fewer people die on our streets, and in our banks, and in our schools and in our churches. And for that, we need help. We need help from our friends in Frankfurt and help from our friends in Washington, DC.

– Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a horrible sound to listen to someone, just literally watching somebody die in front of you, you feel so helpless.

– Barb Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main reason why I’m not surprised is that we already know that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality in our country, with Black women three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes, and the main disparities that we see in mortality, we also see in morbidity.

– Zsakeba Henderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was not surprised that everybody has a cell phone, we used to tell the story then that someday when you’re born you would be assigned a phone number. If you didn’t answer the phone, you would die.

– Martin Cooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

– Bob Monkhouse

added by Normando
1 year ago

Why can’t we just wait until July 1? our concern is that people are going to get sick or die because they’re not going to be able to access the health care that they so desperately need.

– Jen Dreiske

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are all like one family. You know, somewhere you feel your guilt, guilt that you did not die like they did.

– Roman Belinsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They were kidnapped from their home. They were transported hundreds of miles from there not really sure where they went. And they came to this place of horror, some to die, many to starve and be tortured. Women to be raped before they were then forcibly taken on a journey thousands of miles from their home to be sold by so-called merchants and taken to the Americas to the Caribbean to be an enslaved people.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I got depressed, I started talking to a psychiatrist in the high-performance sports system. And he helped me through a lot of things, i wanted to die, I did n’t want to live anymore.

– Hannah Peters/Getty Images Robertson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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