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

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Every loss of life is terrible.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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

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

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

What we live by we die by.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

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

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.