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I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and read more
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, discover that I have not lived.
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age
Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away
Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are read more
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life read more
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.