My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.
Mr. TIf anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
Elon MuskDeath wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.
Billy GrahamOnly on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry AdamsAt first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.
Greta ThunbergI 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 FrankIf I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.
Billie EilishWhen we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
Christopher HitchensDying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody AllenIt 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 JohnsonOn the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody AllenWe 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.
Thich Nhat HanhIt’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.
Virginia WoolfSome people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
Benjamin FranklinRadical 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 ChomskyMany people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellDeath is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaEvery man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin LutherIt is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry PratchettWhen I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.
Lana Del ReyMan the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da VinciHence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo MachiavelliNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamDo not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard ShawHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James BaldwinAs flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William ShakespeareMy only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas JeffersonEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul SartreI’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 HitchensI’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Douglas MacArthurJohn Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac AsimovThe body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques RousseauLife is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.
Muhammad AliYou don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.
Dolly PartonMy father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher HitchensColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob DylanBy 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 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 MachiavelliIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EpicurusTo walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George OrwellFrom the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel JohnsonThe problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTo build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston ChurchillWe all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.
Frank OceanIt’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
Terry PratchettAll diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPrevious generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry PratchettWe all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.
Mr. TDeath is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.
Steve JobsOne 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 HitchensIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil GibranEvery time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis PresleyIn a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt is natural to die as to be born.
Francis BaconFrom 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 MuirThe same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander PopeWars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan WattsI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin