“Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.”
Dr. Rollo May
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“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
“Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry”
Mark Twain
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live”