Dying is a wild night and a new road.

For 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.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

An unused life is an early death.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

When 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.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

When 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.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

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

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

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

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

The 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.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

A useless life is an early death.

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?

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

All diseases run into one, old age.

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

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.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.