3 December 2020 Sonia Johnson A friend said to me, ‘Be glad for your troubles – they strengthen you.’ Well, if that’s the truth, I’m going to be so strong they’ll have to beat me to death!
3 December 2020 Patrick Henry I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
3 December 2020 Robin Gibb If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That’s how fragile our consciousness is.
3 December 2020 Robert Browning A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
3 December 2020 John Elway I’m watching the Weather Channel more than I’ve ever watched it. I’m scared to death it’s going to rain.
3 December 2020 Emma Thompson But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I’ve failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don’t get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong 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.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
3 December 2020 Aristotle To 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.
3 December 2020 Jessica Lange Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
3 December 2020 Hilaire Belloc Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.
3 December 2020 Travis Barker It’s something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.
3 December 2020 Robert Benchley A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
3 December 2020 Lorna Luft Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
3 December 2020 Karlie Kloss I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
3 December 2020 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 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.
3 December 2020 Saul Alinsky Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
3 December 2020 Martin Heidegger If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
