The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

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

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

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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

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.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

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

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

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

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

A useless life is an early death.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

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

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.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

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 slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

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.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

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.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

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.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.