Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
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.
I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.
If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.
Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
I do lots - I've always felt that the idea when you're on your deathbed is, you know, to do lots of different - to say that you've done lots of different interesting things not, you know, how expensive a lining you can get for your coffin, you know.
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.
People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.
He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'
Do you live each day as if it's your first or your last? Either way you should probably have a diaper on.
