While I thought that I was learning how to live I have been learning how to die.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Author: Leonardo da Vinci

Also found in:

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.