I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

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

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it’s dangerous.

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.

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.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

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

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

I love roller coasters. I don’t get a chance often, but I’ve gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

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.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

It is natural to die as to be born.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.