Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.