“And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.” IfsThinkingBelieveWellsKindMeanSaidStillsDiesFeltHappenedBloodOne DayMouthsThings HappenSatSerenity Author:Desmond Tutu
“Yeah. Iʼve always felt this way. I mean weʼre born alone, we die alone. And while weʼre here we are absolutely, completely sealed in our own bodies. Really weird. Kinda freaks me out to think about it. We can only experience the outside world through our own slanted perception of it. Who knows what youʼre really like. I just see what I think youʼre like.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayMeanBodyDiesFeltBornPerceptionYeahFreakOutside WorldReally WeirdBorn Alone Author:Tom Ford
“Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?” WorldShouldYearsFirstsDiesFeltHeardCrimeThis WorldSummerBirdYears AgoShould HaveWarmthCheerTornConsolationRemorse Author:Mary Wollstonecraft
“I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.” KnowsMenEarthFacesDiesFeltKnow HowBaseball Author:Mickey Mantle
“It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense” MenLooksWarHandsPastFormDiesFeltForgetEmotionTalkingTomorrowSorrowDiedSakeLipsBritishUselessResolveEmbarrassingForget ItArt Of WarNo PointParadesBroodingStiff Upper Lip Author:George MacDonald
“It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?” IfsDiesFeltLaughingOdd Book:Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy: Source: Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy: