Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma GandhiThe life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark TwainThe greatest distance in this world is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I love you.
Rabindranath TagoreTo be or not to be: that is the question.
William ShakespeareWhy since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn unageing, undiseased, deathless, sorrowless, undefiled, supreme surcease of bondage, the extinction of all these troubles.
BuddhaTo die will be an awfully big adventure.
James Matthew BarrieI am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?
Mother TeresaI'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die so let me live my life the way I want to.
Jimi HendrixI am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma GandhiI intend to live forever or die trying.
Groucho MarxYou are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
Herman HesseI am not afraid of death I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody AllenBeauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
Frank ZappaSleep is like a temporary death.
Bob DylanLove never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness of witherings of tarnishings.
Anais NinI don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
Bob MarleySome people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin FranklinCowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareIn this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
Benjamin FranklinA man can die but once.
William ShakespeareHe that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin FranklinNo man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho MarxMan is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms.
Rabindranath TagoreFor what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Kahlil GibranUnbeing dead isn't being alive.
E.E. CummingsBetter to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Bob MarleyMany people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin FranklinThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareGod lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.
Mahatma GandhiIf you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.
Paulo CoelhoWe hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.
Herman HesseIf we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya AngelouTo be idle is a short road to death, and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
BuddhaWe can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
BuddhaOnly a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Theodor W. AdornoDeath is not extinguishing the light, it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath TagoreOf present fame think little and of future less, the praises that we receive after we are buried like the flowers that are strewed over our grave may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb ColtonEach day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur SchopenhauerAlas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SophoclesI like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae WestI went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
Deepak ChopraIt is a living death if one is obsessed by pride ego and anger.
Sai BabaIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil GibranHuman nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations that a young person who either marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane AustenCowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius CaesarOne can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down everything, except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeAbsence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore RooseveltWe met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane AustenI answer the heroic question "Death where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."
Maya AngelouIntellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert EinsteinEducated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.
AristotleFor those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SophoclesJazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
Frank ZappaIt is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things, than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
BuddhaI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer, because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo CoelhoFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiDeath makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders, smooth as ravens claws.
Jim MorrisonWhen the blandishments of life are gone, the coward creeps to death - the brave lives on.
Marcus AureliusDeath and life have their determined appointments, riches and honors depend upon heaven.
ConfuciusI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinAs long as your body is healthy and under control, and death is distant, try to save your soul, when death is immanent what can you do?
ChanakyaDeath is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb ColtonHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinWhy is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark TwainIt's bleak, because I can't - many of us can't - hear her sweet voice, but it's great because she did live and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.
Maya AngelouI love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas PaineAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da VinciDeath is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen KellerGain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.
Sai BabaOur life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da VinciHe is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDeath is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody AllenThe reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas PaineEven death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
BuddhaLet us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted, according to the graces we have received, and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother TeresaTo the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. RowlingLet us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick at least we didn't die, so let us all be thankful.
BuddhaCopulation is no more foul to me than death is.
Walt WhitmanAnd if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.
MorrisseyWhen good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar WildeThe worst is Death, and death will have his day.
William ShakespeareSpeak me fair in death.
William ShakespeareTired with all these, for restful death I cry.
William ShakespeareWhat ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
William ShakespeareSome Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
William ShakespeareBeware the Ides of March.
William ShakespeareIn death the many become one; in life the one become many.
Rabindranath TagoreThe flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.
Rabindranath TagoreLet life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
Rabindranath TagoreI wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it I get up.
Benjamin FranklinA brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
Paulo CoelhoLife is tragic, simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day for each of us the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James Arthur BaldwinIt is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother TeresaI want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar WildeThe lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
Kahlil GibranDeath is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
Joseph StalinEverything is changeable, everything appears and disappears, there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
BuddhaIf we don't know life how can we know death?
ConfuciusWhat difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism, or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma GandhiDeath is the only pure beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
David Herbert LawrenceI was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me . . they're cramming for their final exam.
George CarlinWish I am free from barriers when I die and Buddha will welcome me from far away.
BuddhaIf you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinIf you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William ShakespeareTruly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William ShakespeareI'd rather be dead then cool.
Kurt CobainIf forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
Thomas AquinasLand and sea weakness and decline are great separators but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John KeatsThe God of death does not give notice of His arrival to take hold of you. He is not like the photographer who says I am clicking are you ready?
Sai BabaTo educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell LowellThe "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
Friedrich NietzscheWe want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
Doug CouplandI'm not afraid of death but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
Stephen HawkingRemembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.
Steve JobsDefoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
William HazlittWe can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack ObamaSee that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
Michelle ObamaI prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de MontaigneNothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt WhitmanThe chief problem about death incidentally is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held
Woody AllenThere are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary ClintonAs men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.
Blaise PascalI hate myself and I want to die
Kurt CobainIt is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Eric HofferOur bodies are perishable wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
Chanakya[But the strongest reason he gave for discounting the results of the B-sample tests from France was heartfelt and honest and totally typical of the iconic cancer survivor.] A guy who comes back from arguably you know a death sentence ... Why would I then enter into a sport and dope myself up and risk my life again? That's crazy. I would never do that. No. No way.
Lance ArmstrongWhen death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from but our severity.
George EliotHe who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas PaineChildren are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl JungIt brings no glory to man if he is tied helplessly to the wheel of birth and death. His glory and greatness consist in disentangling himself from that revolving wheel.
Sai BabaComplete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
John DeweyOf all escape mechanisms death is the most efficient.
Henry Ward BeecherI'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather on his deathbed sold me this watch.
Woody AllenCreation destroys as it goes throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death multiply itself million upon million rear up city upon city save every parasite alive until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert LawrenceYou can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Barack ObamaTalk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money it is all profit it completes our education founds and fosters our friendships and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis StevensonI see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death but conquers agony.
Lord ByronIt is easy to go down into Hell, night and day the gates of dark Death stand wide, but to climb back again to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub the task.
VirgilBullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death, and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest HemingwayThere is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.
Hillary ClintonUnless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett MardenEvery parting gives a foretaste of death every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe live in grief for having left the womb for having left the teat then school then home. In my case it was leaving marriages and the death of my wife.
William ShatnerA man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore RooseveltYou take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.
Sai BabaFor the wretched one night is like a thousand, for someone faring well death is just one more night.
SophoclesSorrows and disasters are like the clouds that flit across the sky, they cannot injure the blue depths of space. Your duty is just to strive on from this very moment. Do not vacillate or postpone. Who knows when death knocks ? May be he may knock this very night this very moment, therefore do not delay. Do you postpone for tomorrow the dinner of this day ! Feed the spirit as scrupulously as you now feed the body.
Sai BabaLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawAfter all every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Albert CamusThe death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph StalinHappiness and peace do not follow when man is fed well clothed well housed well and educated up to a good standard and employed under comfortable conditions with no injury to health or security.
Sai BabaI postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.
Anais NinIf someone is going down the wrong road he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim RohnDeath is a release from the impressions of sense and from impulses that make us their puppets from the vagaries of the mind and the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus AureliusIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Winston ChurchillI am also the target of such comments people do not understand the way of God. How can they know why particular event takes place at a particular time in a particular manner? He alone can know. But people try to sit in judgment and talk ill when for example one dies of illness at this place how can anyone escape death?
Sai BabaIt is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus AureliusThere's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina JolieWhether for life or death do your own work well.
John RuskinI don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.
Paul RyanIt is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody AllenIf we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; And if to live, the fewer men the greater share of honor.
William ShakespeareDeath is not natural for a state as it is for a human being for whom death is not only necessary but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own so both of them together is certain death.
George CarlinDeath is a stopping of impressions through the senses and of the pulling of the cords of motion and of the ways of thought and of service to the flesh.
Marcus AureliusWe are not victims of aging sickness and death. These are part of scenery not the seer who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit the expression of eternal being.
Deepak ChopraPolice and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush LimbaughSleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death, and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe main facts in human life are five: birth food sleep love and death.
E. M. ForsterIf what you do is being threatened as a profession that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
Marilyn MansonDeath gives advance notice of his arrival to take you Sai Baba
We are not to give credit to the many who say that none ought to be educated but the free, but rather to the philosophers who say that the well-educated alone are free.
EpictetusDeath destroys a man but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. ForsterThe more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will RogersIt is not death it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de MontaigneNormality is death.
Theodor W. AdornoOne is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death one dies one's life.
Jean-Paul SartrePrepare for death if here at night you roam and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel JohnsonOne lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises quality health services and educational facilities.
Abdul KalamDeath is softer by far than tyranny.
AeschylusPale death with impartial step knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
HoraceBetter to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph AddisonThe human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting even in death.
David Herbert LawrenceEven very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'RourkeGuilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco ChanelThe very problem of mind and body suggests division, I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion morals and science, the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education in religion in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.
John DeweyLet us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead and a very rare species.
Friedrich NietzscheIf you consider my situation: a guy who comes back from arguably you know a death sentence why would I then enter into a sport and dope myself up and risk my life again? That's crazy. I would never do that. No. No way.
Lance ArmstrongA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard ShawEvery moment many are born and many die. But man has to discover how to 'avoid' death.
Sai BabaAll violence consists in some people forcing others under threat of suffering or death to do what they do not want to do.
Leo TolstoyI've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Douglas MacArthurDivorce is probably as painful as death.
William ShatnerOur nature consists in motion, complete rest is death.
Blaise PascalDeath like birth is a secret of Nature.
Marcus AureliusEvery spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
Deepak ChopraPeople have their own deaths as well as their own lives and even if there is nothing beyond death we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. ForsterI never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough I only started to get to know her after John's death.
Paul McCartneyDo not contemplate on death, it is just an incident in life, contemplate on God who is the master of all life.
Sai BabaThe first duty of government is to see that people have food fuel and clothes. The second that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John RuskinNo country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson MandelaHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HoraceDeath to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Bob DylanThe death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
Joel OsteenHe who is born cannot escape death some time somewhere.
Sai BabaWhat I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave BarryThere is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George SantayanaWith death doomed to grapple / Beneath this cold slab he / Who lied in the chapel / Now lies in the Abbey.
Lord ByronIn every death a busy world comes to an end.
Mason CooleyIt's not catastrophes murders deaths diseases that age and kill us, it's the way people look and laugh and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia WoolfNeither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Francois de La RochefoucauldOrdinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
SocratesPale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HoraceThe world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.
William Blake