It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you read more

It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time.
(7:3).

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it read more

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and read more

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death.

For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that read more

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.