„When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?“

„[Portraying Godzilla in the water] is the most dangerous part of my job. If I fell over, I could drown. I would never be able to get back up with the Godzilla costume on.“

—  Kenpachiro Satsuma Japanese actor 1947

As quoted by David Milner, "Kenpachiro Satsuma Interview I" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/satsum.htm, Kaiju Conversations (December 1993)

„Self-doubt is part of being human...but the main thing is to get on with the business of survival.“

—  Stephen Baxter, book Raft

Source: Raft (1991), Chapter 16 (p. 158)

„Applaud my friends, the comedy is over…
[on his death bed]“

—  Ludwig Van Beethoven German Romantic composer 1770 - 1827

„The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

„As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.“

—  David Levithan, book Every Day

Source: Every Day

„But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.“

—  Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

„The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.“

—  John Cassian Christian monk and theologian 360 - 435

„When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

--from WHEN DEATH COMES“

—  Mary Oliver American writer 1935 - 2019

Variant: When it’s over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

„Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.“

—  Alexander Pope eighteenth century English poet 1688 - 1744

Letter, written in collaboration with Dr John Arbuthnot, to Jonathan Swift (December 5, 1732) upon the death of John Gay.

„This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.“

—  David Levithan, book Every Day

Source: Every Day

„People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend“

—  Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971

„Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.“

—  Patrick Stump American musician 1984

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„Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.“

—  Madeleine L'Engle, book Meet the Austins

Source: Meet the Austins

„The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

„When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.“

—  Brendan Behan Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright 1923 - 1964

Hostage (1958)

„When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death“

—  Robert Lynn Asprin, book Myth Directions

Source: Myth Directions

„In the place, then, of death's ending us, — death, but one item in the being of the natural world, the whole of which is conditioned upon our central self-consciousness,—we arrive at the settled and logically immovable conception that we are ourselves the changeless ground of that transition in experience into which death thus gets interpreted.“

—  George Holmes Howison American philosopher 1834 - 1916

Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Human Immortality: its Positive Argument, p.306

„Part of my life is saving life.“

—  Dith Pran Cambodian photojournalist 1942 - 2008

Hero of the Cambodian 'Killing Fields', Dith Pran, dies of cancer at 65, 2008-03-31, 2008-03-31, Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=550228&in_page_id=1811,

„She and I were still friends, but not best friends, not like we used to be. But we were still friends. She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.“

—  Jenny Han American writer 1980

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty