„Having a child changes every aspect of your life — for the better, of course. The sacrifices are large, but what you get in return is even bigger than the sacrifices you make. I feel, in a sense, ready to die because you are living on in your child. Not literally, not ready to die — but you know, that sort of feeling in a profound way.“

„So long as you are ready to die for Humanity, the life of your country is immortal.“

—  Giuseppe Mazzini Italian patriot, politician and philosopher 1805 - 1872

„When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it.“

—  Steve Maraboli 1975

„You must be ready to sacrifice your health if you wish to gain wealth. That is simply an unavoidable law of nature.“

—  Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

„I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.“

—  Melina Marchetta, libro Looking for Alibrandi

„if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.“

—  Amy Hempel Short story writer 1951

„Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.“

—  Charles Kingsley English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819 - 1875

„What happens in the story of Adam and Eve is that when people become self-conscious, they get thrown out of Paradise and then they're in history. And history is a place where there's pain in child birth, and where you're dominated by your mate, and where you have to toil like mad like no other animal because you're aware of your future. You have to work, and sacrifice the joys of the present for the future, constantly, and you know that you're going to die. And you have all that weight on you. How could anything be more true than that? Unless you're naive beyond comprehension. There's something that's echoed about your life in that representation. We're such strange creatures, because we don't really fit into being in some sense, and that's what's expressed in the notion of The Fall.“

—  Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962

„You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.“

—  Daniel Woodrell Novelist 1953

„If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?“

—  Charles de Lint author 1951

„That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.“

—  Walter Dean Myers American writer 1937 - 2014

„I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.“

—  Laura Riding Jackson poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer 1901 - 1991

„You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. […] Your life is not disposable.“

—  David Levithan American author and editor 1972

„There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to compromising. As you get bigger, you have your own way. But in a partnership you always have to compromise. … When you get into a partnership, you're not the boss. There's no boss. That makes it hard.“

—  Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941

„I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.“

—  Libba Bray, Going Bovine

„You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.“

—  Anne Lamott Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954

„Students of the Ichi school Way of strategy should train from the start with the sword and long sword in either hand. This is the truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon yet undrawn.“

—  Miyamoto Musashi Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1584 - 1645

„The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.“

—  Tsunetomo Yamamoto, libro Hagakure

„To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.“

—  Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

„You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.“

—  Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962