Malcolm X Quotes

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

I always know I can die at any moment.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

Death is a very important part of life.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.