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.
Angelina JolieI believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Terry PratchettI have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David ThoreauNo 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.
Billy GrahamEven today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
Pope FrancisThere are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody AllenIt 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiFrom the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon BonaparteIf we don’t know life, how can we know death?
ConfuciusBecause I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily DickinsonEach day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou’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.
Bob DylanI’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Douglas AdamsThe charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise PascalRacism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
Billy GrahamExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace ThackerayDeath wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.
Billy GrahamThe stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William ShakespeareOne has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich NietzscheDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel JohnsonIt seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.
Terry PratchettNothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye WestA squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark ZuckerbergThe heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard ShawLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawThe true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David ByrneThat we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel JohnsonWhen at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
Fidel CastroI look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
Billy GrahamA 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.
Aldous HuxleyEverybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.
John LennonTo 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.
AristotlePeoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Fidel CastroMadame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest HemingwayDenial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Mark TwainDying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody AllenLife does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard ShawIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EpicurusIf I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina JolieIn modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest HemingwayThey died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Douglas MacArthurDeath most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil GibranIt 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.
Harper LeeObviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.
Angelina JolieOne should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich NietzscheMy fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey NewtonEgypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
Noam ChomskyThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareFrom an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.
Russell M. NelsonIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil GibranOn the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody AllenMen are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert CamusIn war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston ChurchillWhat we live by we die by.
Robert FrostDeath is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George CarlinYou either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
John LennonIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus AureliusThe Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.
Joyce MeyerIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. PattonConfront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
David Bowie