Quotes on Die Young

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.

Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity.

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.