It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

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.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

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

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

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

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

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

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

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

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

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

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.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

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

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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.

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.

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.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

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.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

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

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.