Malcolm X Quotes

Everyone is going to die.

We're all going to die.

Though I'm 75, I'm not looking forward to death, but it's there for all of us.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

I feel like Dr. Death.

When you dead, you dead.

My name is Death: the last best friend am I.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

I know that I am going to die, and I'm ready to do so.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.