“Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.”
Alfred Adler
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
Jerry Seinfeld
“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
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
Hunter S. Thompson