I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
I've never believed that 'Idol' as a franchise is beholden to any individual because everybody said it would die the minute Simon Cowell left, and it hasn't.
There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
More people die on a yearly basis crossing the Florida Straits than ever died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'
I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
Under the not-so-watchful eye of ACS, children continue to die avoidable deaths. This is beyond unacceptable and betrays our moral conscience.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.
We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.
All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
