"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard."
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"If they do kill me, I shall never die another death."
"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
"There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case."
"Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything."
"In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles."
"I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever."
"Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks."
"For a single path leads to the house of Hades."
"Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable."
"I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens."
"I keep thinking how young can you die from old age"
"On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?"
"Life's too short for a funeral."
"Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer."
"Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive."
"... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die."
"I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."
"I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death."
"Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!"