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Johnny Depp Foto

“I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.”
Ich glaube nicht, dass jemand unbedingt auf den Tod vorbereitet ist. Man kann nur hoffen, dass man, wenn er naht, das Gefühl hat, dass man gesagt hat, was man sagen wollte. Niemand will mitten im Satz sterben.

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
Joseph Stalin Foto

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
Ein einzelner Todesfall ist eine Tragödie, eine Million Todesfälle sind eine Statistik.

Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Variants: One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
When one dies, it is a tragedy. When a million die, it is a statistic.
In Портрет тирана (1981) (Portrait of a Tyrant), Soviet historian Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko attributes the following version to Stalin: "When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics." This is the alleged response of Stalin during the 1943 Tehran conference when Churchill objected to an early opening of a second front in France.<!-- The book appears to have a footnote sourceing the claim, but I couldn't access it. Could someone please try to scare up a paper copy and have a look at footnote 188? -->
In her review "Mustering Most Memorable Quips" of Konstantin Dushenko's 1997 Dictionary of Modern Quotations (Словарь современных цитат: 4300 ходячих цитат и выражений ХХ века, их источники, авторы, датировка), Julia Solovyova states: "Russian historians have no record of the lines, 'Death of one man is a tragedy. Death of a million is a statistic,' commonly attributed by English-language dictionaries to Josef Stalin."
This quotation may originate from "Französischer Witz" (1925) by Kurt Tucholsky: "Darauf sagt ein Diplomat vom Quai d'Orsay: «Der Krieg? Ich kann das nicht so schrecklich finden! Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!»" ("To which a Quai d'Orsay diplomat replies: «The war? I can't find it so terrible! The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!»")
Another possible source or intermediary may be the concluding words of chapter 8 of the 1956 novel The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque: "Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik." ("But probably the reason is that one dead man is death—and two million are only a statistic." 1958 Crest Book reprint)
Mary Soames (daughter of Churchill) claims to have overheard Stalin deliver a variant of the quote in immediate postwar Berlin (Remembrance Sunday Andrew Marr interview BBC 2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hP2tpw9XEw
See also Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist, 1939: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."
In an interview given for the 1983 three-part documentary Der Prozeß by Norddeutscher Rundfunk on the Third Majdanek trial, Simon Wiesenthal attributes the quote to the unpublished auto-biography of Adolf Eichmann. According to Wiesenthal, Eichmann had been asked by another member of the Reich Main Security Office during WWII what they should answer would they be questioned after the war about the millions of dead Jews they were responsible for, to which Eichmann according to his own testimony had replied with the quote.
Misattributed
Variante: The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Foto
Tupac Shakur Foto

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
Der Tod ist nicht der größte Verlust im Leben. Der größte ist das, was im Inneren stirbt, während es noch lebt. Niemals aufgeben.

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Variante: Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

John Lennon Foto
Erich Maria Remarque Foto
Malcolm X Foto

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
Für mich ist Verrat schlimmer ist als der Tod. Ich könnte mir den Tod vorstellen, aber nicht den Verrat

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Emil M. Cioran Foto
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”
Feiglinge sterben tausend Tode, aber die Tapferen sterben nur einmal.

Ernest Hemingway buch A Farewell to Arms

Quelle: A Farewell to Arms

Marcus Aurelius Foto

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Nicht den Tod sollte man fürchten, sondern daß man nie beginnen wird, zu leben.

Marcus Aurelius buch Selbstbetrachtungen

Quelle: Meditations

Charles Bukowski Foto

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
Wir sind hier, um über die Widrigkeiten zu lachen und unser Leben so gut zu leben, dass der Tod zittern wird, um uns mitzunehmen.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Terry Pratchett Foto

“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
Die Menschen machen das Leben so interessant. Sie haben es geschafft in einem Universum voller Wunder die Langeweile zu erfinden. (Tod)

Terry Pratchett buch Hogfather

Quelle: Hogfather

Robert Frost Foto

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Der Grund, warum Sorgen mehr als Arbeit Menschen töten, ist, dass sich die Menschen mehr sorgen als sie arbeiten.

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Alexandre Dumas Foto

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”

Alexandre Dumas buch Der Graf von Monte Christo

Quelle: The Count of Monte Cristo

Virginia Woolf Foto

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
Ich wollte über den Tod schreiben, nur das Leben brach wie immer ein.

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Foto

“If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time … human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works

Tolkien in Oxford (1968) http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/12237.shtml, a BBC 2 television documentary (at 21:49)

Jean Cocteau Foto

“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.”
Alles, was man im Leben tut, sogar lieben, taucht auf in einem Schnellzug, der dem Tod entgegenrast. Wenn man Opium raucht, holt einen das aus diesem Zug, während er sich immer noch bewegt. Es kommt vielmehr darauf an, sich mit etwas anderem zu befassen, als mit dem Leben oder Tod.

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Opium (1929)

Erich Maria Remarque Foto

“The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.”
Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.

Erich Maria Remarque buch Der schwarze Obelisk

Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.
Der schwarze Obelisk (1956)
A variant of this quote "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic." has also been attributed to Joseph Stalin, but no source for this has been found. This version appeared in the English press not later than 1958. (Ремарк, Эрих Мария // Словарь современных цитат / составитель К. В. Душенко — Москва: изд-во «Эксмо», 2006)

Charles Bukowski Foto
Erich Maria Remarque Foto

“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”
Unser Wissen vom Leben beschränkt sich auf den Tod.

Erich Maria Remarque buch Im Westen nichts Neues

Quelle: All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque Foto
Isaiah Berlin Foto

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Paul McCartney Foto
Gabriel García Márquez Foto
Edgar Allan Poe Foto

“Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.”
Schlafen. Diese kleinen Totenstücke. Wie ich sie verabscheue.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic

Various forms of this quote are attributed to Poe, primarily by a title card in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, though there is no record of his having ever said it.
Misattributed

Sophocles Foto

“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”

Sophocles Electra

Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Sören Kierkegaard Foto

“Once you label me you negate me.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

As attributed in Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, Vol. 2 (1976) by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33; no earlier incidents have been located.
Variants:
When you label me, you negate me.
As attributed in Inner Joy (1985) by Kory Bloomfield, p 169
Disputed
Variante: What labels me, negates me.

Mark Twain Foto

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
Ich habe keine Angst vor dem Tod. Ich war Milliarden und Abermilliarden Jahre vor meiner Geburt tot gewesen und hatte nicht die geringste Unannehmlichkeit davon erlitten.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Terry Pratchett Foto

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
Denk darüber nicht als Sterben, sagte der Tod. Denk einfach daran, dass du früher gehst, um dem Ansturm auszuweichen.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Quelle: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
Alle Männer haben Ängste, aber die Tapferen legen ihre Ängste ab und gehen vorwärts, manchmal zum Tod, aber immer zum Sieg.

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Quelle: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Ian Fleming Foto

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

Du lebst nur zweimal: Einmal, als du geboren bist Und einmal, wenn du dem Tod ins Gesicht siehst.

Ian Fleming buch You Only Live Twice

Quelle: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 11 : Anatomy Class

Leonardo Da Vinci Foto

“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.”
Wie ein gut verbrachter Tag einen glücklichen Schlaf beschert, so beschert ein gut verbrachtes Leben einen glücklichen Tod.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Mark Twain Foto

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Die Angst vor dem Tod folgt aus der Angst vor dem Leben. Ein Mann, der vollständig lebt, ist jederzeit bereit zu sterben.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
Misattributed

Oscar Wilde Foto

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
Das Geheimnis der Liebe ist größer als das Geheimnis des Todes.

Oscar Wilde Salome

le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Quelle: Salomé (1893)

Stephen King Foto

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
Und werde ich sagen, dass diese drei glücklich gelebt haben? Nein, werde ich nicht, denn niemand tut es jemals. Aber es gab Glück. Und sie haben gelebt.

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Quelle: The Dark Tower

Jacques Prevért Foto

“Laugh at death and die of laughter.”

Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter

Attributed

“A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.”

Carlos Castaneda buch The Wheel of Time

The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

John Cleese Foto

“Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.”

John Cleese (1939) actor from England

BBC interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/11/20/john_cleese_die_another_day_interview.shtml on Die Another Day (20 November 2002)]

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