
“Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.”
Guru Granth Sahib p. 83
“Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.”
Guru Granth Sahib p. 83
“If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?”
Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
Billy writing a letter to a newspaper describing the Tralfamadorians
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Context: The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes."
“When an evil masochist dies, does he go to hell, or would heaven be a better punishment?”
Source: The Man in the Iron Mask
“Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.”
Reportedly to Cape Town journalists in February 1987, though later denied. As cited by Andrew Donaldson, Sunday Times, 5 November 2006