Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

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

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

A useless life is an early death.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

What we live by we die by.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

It is natural to die as to be born.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

Every loss of life is terrible.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

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

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.