To 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.
BuddhaThree can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin FranklinArdently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.
BuddhaI don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
Bob MarleySome people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Benjamin FranklinHe that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin FranklinBetter 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 FranklinTo 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.
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. AdornoOf 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 ColtonHuman 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 AustenWe met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane AustenI didn't attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark TwainFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinDeath 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 ColtonWhy 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 AngelouDeath 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 TwainKudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect
Maya AngelouIn 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 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 FranklinLet us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark TwainThe call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Herman HesseWhen artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.
Herman HesseEverything is changeable, everything appears and disappears, there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
BuddhaWhat 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 GandhiWish I am free from barriers when I die and Buddha will welcome me from far away.
BuddhaRemembering 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 JobsSee 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 ObamaThe 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 Clinton[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 ArmstrongYou 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 StevensonAbsolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques RousseauBullfighting 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 HemingwaySorrows 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 ShawI don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
Hedy LamarrHistorically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Stephen CoveyOur life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor HugoI 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 BabaThere'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 RuskinThe main facts in human life are five: birth food sleep love and death.
E. M. ForsterRegard your soldiers as your children and they will follow you into the deepest valleys, look on them as your own beloved sons and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun TzuThe 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 DeweyDeath is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo BuscagliaThe 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