Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Change in all things is sweet.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Things do not change; we change.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Death is a fearful thing.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.