“I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.”
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.
“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.”
“I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.”
“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.”
“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”
“Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.”
“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.”
“The valiant never taste of death but once.”
“I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.”
“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
“McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.”
“Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.”
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
“My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.”
“The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.”
“Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.”
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”