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

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

Death is a fearful thing.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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

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

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

An unused life is an early death.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

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

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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

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

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

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.

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

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.