“Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will...” — Herman Melville Quote

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'

I've been dying to play.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.