I’ll never forget Hurricane Katrina – the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
For 200 years we’ve been conquering nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
I have no fear of death. More important, I don’t fear life.
If I ever went, I’d want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn’t want to plan my own death.
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
I definitely wouldn’t wish death on anyone.
The ‘Course in Miracles’ says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
I taught myself confidence. When I’d walk into a room and feel scared to death, I’d tell myself, ‘I’m not afraid of anybody.’ And people believed me. You’ve got to teach yourself to take over the world.
Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can’t be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
I am determined to offer an apology with my death.
My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
