David Eagleman Quotes

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

I won't cry cause I live to die, with my mind on my money and my guns in the sky.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.