“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”
John Steinbeck
“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
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“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
“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”