Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
David BowieFrom the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.
John MuirTyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
VoltaireOne thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.
Jeff BezosBut blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander PopeDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel JohnsonI joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig van BeethovenThe problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMany people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellAlas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar WildeWars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan WattsIf you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
Noam ChomskyWhich death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.
Julius CaesarAll this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob DylanTo build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston ChurchillWhen you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
Ernest HemingwayLife is wasted on the living.
Douglas AdamsDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EpicurusFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest HemingwayWar is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.
George OrwellI see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
Anne FrankI don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac AsimovHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob MarleyMillions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.
Christopher HitchensAll men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
VoltaireMortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.
Keanu ReevesWe all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.
Mr. TNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Tennessee WilliamsMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis BaconThe fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Albert EinsteinThere are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
Bill GatesOne has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich NietzscheOur words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.
Joyce MeyerI’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.
Christopher HitchensCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawIn the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Christopher HitchensThe human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da VinciHence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo MachiavelliIf you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston ChurchillThe level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
Noam ChomskyWe have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry PratchettMen ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliRadical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
Noam ChomskyCivilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
Thich Nhat HanhIf I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.
Billie EilishHow young can you die of old age?
Steven WrightIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel JohnsonEvery human being is under construction from conception to death.
Billy GrahamThe last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise PascalThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark TwainI’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.
Henny YoungmanAs long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
ChanakyaMy only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas JeffersonOne has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.
Christopher HitchensBy the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Terry PratchettTo walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George OrwellFor in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. KennedyI don’t pick up toys. I crush them.
Jocko WillinkConfront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
David Bowie