I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.
Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.
I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out. Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.
To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.
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