“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”
Steve Biko (1946–1977) anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
On Death
Source: Gone Girl
“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”
Steve Biko (1946–1977) anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
On Death
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
“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 309
“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”
Dean Koontz book Dead and Alive
Source: Dead and Alive
“I can't take their pressure
No one cares if you live or die
They just want me gone
They want me gone”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
Lyrics, The Eraser (2006)
Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) American lyricist
"'S Wonderful", Funny Face, Act I (1927).
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
“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