Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. – Indian Saying
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. – Author Unknown
If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace… — treasure them. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. – Epictetus
though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. – e.e. cummings
I admire the man who exclaimed, “I have lost a day!” because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it…. – Author unknown, “Flowers of Literature,” 1803
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. – Dion Boucicault
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? – Stephen Levine
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar. – Horace
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? – Horace
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. – Jonathan Swift
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. РJean de La Bruy̬re
Is there life before death? – Author Unknown
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. – Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro
If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die. – Attributed to Jim Elliot
