“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
“Since I learned the secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical. I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of is one I live on a day to day basis. I live in a four-and-a-half-million-dollar mansion. I have a wife to die for. I get to vacation in all the fabulous spots of the world. I've climbed mountains. I've explored. I've been on safaris. And all of this happened and continues to happen, because of knowing how to apply The Secret.” ThinkingWorldKindDreamHappensDiesSecretHalfMillionsKnowingFourWifeHappenedMountainBasesDollarsSpotsVacationDay To DayFabulousMillion DollarsMansions Author:Jack Canfield
“Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and I was really just trying to focus on like as much cardio as possible because in this film I do a lot of running and a lot of running in 100 degree heat in Austinit was like a sprintit was very much like all one shot running around, sprinting. So I had to build up my cardio to be able to get to that place and also not to like, die.” TryingRunningAbleFilmDiesFocusHappenedDegreesTrainingShotsFinishedHeatMentalityCardio Author:Cobie Smulders
“If a girl breaks up with me, I want her to just die, just be dead. Not 'cause I hate her so much as it's just easier for when my friends go, 'Hey, what happened?' 'Oh, she's dead. I'd still be with her, but she's dead. What can I do? She was loving me, but she's dead.'” IfsWantStillsHateDiesGirlCausesBreakHappenedEasierMy FriendsDatingI HateHeyLoving MeFunny DatingHate HerI Hate Her Author:Adam Sandler
“Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.” WellsHappensDiesJesusHappenedAccountsResurrectionAscension Author:Richard Dawkins
“The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.” PeopleLastsNightDiesThreeCuttingHappenedEventsRevolutionRiversCastsTeaBridgesBritainControversyLast NightHarborsAmerican Revolution Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayMeanLongEnoughFactsDiesLeftLosesKnowingHappenedMysteryThis WorldDisappearNot KnowingSheerAstonishingStarksMean People Author:Sam Harris
“My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born in the '40s. They were young adults before the '60s even happened, and married, and already having kids. But by the time we were adolescents in the '70s, the whole culture was screaming at parents, "You're a good parent if you're open with your kids about sex." They attempted to be open with us about sex, and it made them want to die, and consequently, it made us want to die.” IfsWorldWantMadeWarWholeKidsYoungDiesCultureSexParentBornHappenedMomDadMarriedAdultsMy DadYoung AdultErasWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War I1960sWanting To DieHaving KidsGood Parent Author:Dan Savage
“If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.” IfsWantChildrenHelpingDiesNaturalDealsGriefHappenedTerribleOur ChildrenRageDisasterWitnessYour ChildrenExplanationFind MeNatural DisasterTurbulenceDismay Author:Karen Armstrong
“Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.” DreamPainLife IsDiesEvilHappenedBrokenCostBirdYour DreamsHindsightHold FastExact Sciences Author:Thomas Jefferson
“In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.” YearsMindMadeSelfDreamSeemsLastsDiesThreeRecordsSawsHappenedGrewCreaturesEarsGuiltAlcoholRuinsFortyThree YearsWornTrue SelfTobaccoVinesSlothParasitesGinCaterpillarsWhiskyMelons Author:Cyril Connolly
“Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?” PeopleMenDiesPartyHappenedSurpriseOffensiveUnclesPearlsHarborsMassacres50th BirthdayBirthday Party Author:Christopher Titus
“The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani has already made the decision. The Sunnis will not be coming back into the Iraqi government. The die is cast. The civil war will continue. George W. Bush will leave office a complete embarrassment. And he still won't know what happened to him.” KnowsMadeStillsWarGovernmentDiesDecisionHappenedEffectsOfficeCongressCastsCivil WarPanicHumiliationComing BackEmbarrassmentWithdrawal Author:Cenk Uygur
“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.” ThinkingMindStillsPlayMomentsTogetherMotherDiesThreeWaterNaturalSawsHappenedChangedBabyDrinkProtectionDecadesThat MomentReservesElephantsFootprintKenyaSo SadDrink WaterPoaching Author:Li Bingbing
“I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair and blue eyes? Why is the Lord's supper all white men? Angels are white, the Pope, Mary, and even the angels.' I said, 'Mother, when we die, do we go to Heaven?' She said, 'Naturally we go to Heaven.' I said, 'Well, what happened to all the black angels?'” MenWellsSaidEyeMotherDiesJesusHeavenBlackWhiteLordHappenedHairAngelBlueMaryPopeWhite ManBlue EyesSupperMommaLord's Supper Author:Muhammad Ali
“First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.” PeopleWayFirstsDiesLeftHappenedGoes OnSucceedFirst TimeLaborFruitBridgesUnconsciousBloodyBeatenArrestedConcussions Author:John Lewis