Life & Death Sayings

I'm not afraid of death. I've been dead before.

I am a builder, not a destroyer.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my bedroom and was in bed before the room was dark.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I am not a saint, but I am not a devil either.

I can't die but once.

The man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand the right.

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

There were times when it would have been easy to give up, but I knew that if I did, others would suffer.

Oh, for some work in the world! It has been given to me to suffer and to serve.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I like it that the dead don't talk. If they did, the past would be even more unbearable than it already is.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.