“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”
On Death
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anti-apartheid activist in South Africa 1946–1977Related quotes
“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf. <br class="br">Speeches <br class="br">Source: The Cost of Living
“You should be as alive as you can, until you're totally dead!”
Dylan Moran (1971) Irish actor and comedian
On getting old.
What It Is (2009)
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
Preface
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Context: The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Sugar Ray Robinson (1921–1989) American boxer
Teddy Atlas on Robinson's punching power http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2441835652984416201&ei=sjpZS9eZGZPllQevwenkAw&q=sugar+ray+robinson#
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Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Variant: If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Stephen Hawking book The Nature of Space and Time
During a debate with Roger Penrose in 1994 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, transcribed in The Nature of Space and Time (1996) by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, p. 121 http://books.google.com/books?id=LstaQTXP65cC&lpg=PP1&dq=nature%20of%20space%20and%20time&pg=PA121#v=onepage&q=&f=false