“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.”
Harold Kushner
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death”
Robert Fulghum