Wittgenstein Quote

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.”

- Candy Chang

Just as one cannot experience true joy without having suffered great pain, life is impossible without death, for they are a single process.  Death is life in another form.

- Philip Kapleau

All goes onward and outward,
Nothing collapses
And to die is different from
What anyone supposes
And luckier.

 - Walt Whitman

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Dying is the most fascinating experience in life.  You’ve got to approach dying the way you live your life – with curiosity, hope, experimentation, and with the help of your friends. 

- Dr Timothy Leary 

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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

 - Harold Kushner

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.

 - Mahatma Gandhi

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

 - Haruki Murakami

Death can show us the way, for when we know and understand completely that our time on this earth is limited, and that we have no way of knowing when it will be over, then we must live each day as if it were the only one we had.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

On the day when death will knock at thy door

What will thou offer him?

I will set before my guest the full vessel of my life.

I will never let him go with empty hands...

 - Rabindranath Tagore

Just as a well spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well used brings happy death.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Get used to dying
before death arrives,
for the dead can only live
and the living can only die.

- Old Mexican refrain.

"Do not seek death.  Death will find you.  But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

 - Dag Hammarskjold