My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Sleep is Mother Nature’s best effort yet to counter death.
I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.
I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don’t ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.
I wish to be a martyr, and I don’t fear death.
Death is just life’s next big adventure.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, ‘Henry, have you made your peace with God?’ Thoreau said, ‘I didn’t know we’d quarreled.’
There’s nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
I always mention stacking the dishwasher – any opportunity. But it’s the consequences – it’s the food poisoning and the potential death that will come with not loading the dishwasher properly.
Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death… The marvel is we did not all die of cold.
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
