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Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

—American Indian Proverb
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

—Mahatma Gandhi
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

—Benjamin Franklin
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

—Mark Twain
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.

—Marie Curie
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

—Mark Twain
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

—Eckhart Tolle
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.

—Henry David Thoreau
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

—Mark Twain
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

—Gandalf
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

—Italian Proverb
Within every difficulty lies opportunity.

—Albert Einstein
Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

—Epicurus
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

—Tecumseh
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

—George Bernard Shaw
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.

—Norman Cousins
The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment, it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with and it should be treated with honour.

—Martha Graham
Death solves all problems. No person, no problem.

—Josef Stalin
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

—Mevlana Rumi
I used to be a terrible hypochondriac when I was young and a great reader of medical dictionaries. One day I realised that I was not actually frightened of terminal illness but of not getting done the things I wanted to get done.

—A. C. Grayling

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