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

—Mark Twain
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
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
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.

—Yoda
A good poem is like a bullet that goes
straight to the heart, life and death on the line, immortality but a short breath away.

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

—Benjamin Franklin
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.

—Norman Cousins
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

—George Santayana
If you want to know how rich you are, add up everything you have that money cannot buy and death cannot take away!

—Anonymous
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

—William Wallace (Mel Gibson)
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

—Mark Twain
Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

—Blaise Pascal (1670)
Every living creature on earth dies alone.

—Roberta Sparrow / Grandma Death (Patience Cleveland)
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless...

—Paul Bowles
There's something about death that is comforting, the thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

—Angelina Jolie
Both life and death are parts of the same great adventure.

—Theodore Roosevelt
Each 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 Schopenhauer (1851)
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

—Hans Christian Andersen

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