“You've gotta know what death is to know life!”
Nobody gets out of here alive, and these quotes do not pretend otherwise. What they offer instead is honesty — about grief, legacy, fear, acceptance, and the strange way that thinking about death can make you more serious about living.
“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”
“You've gotta know what death is to know life!”
“As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.”
“When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.”
“Death is feared as birth is forgotten.”
“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”
“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
“Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'”
“We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.”
“For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.”
“I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.”
“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
“As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.”
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
“I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.”