Previous 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.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Our life is made by the death of others.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

I 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?

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

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.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

We 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.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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