Top 100 How To Die Quotes
#1. The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
Michel De Montaigne
#3. The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.
Richard Rohr
#4. You don't know who you are until you know God and you don't know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.
Alistair Begg
#5. Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.
J.I. Packer
#7. Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
Morrie Schwartz.
#8. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry Pratchett
#9. Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.
Dinah
#10. The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
Mitch Albom
#11. We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.
Bill Bright
#12. She wished Michael had had a grandfather like this guy Morty, someone to tell him, "It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth." Instead of one who showed him how to die.
Janet Fitch
#13. Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.
Jacques Derrida
#14. You politicians make me sick with your heroics!
How to die with valor. How to die with dignity.
When you should be learning: how to live like a human being.
Nathan Toulane
#15. The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live ...
Anne Bronte
#16. None of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die. None of them will exhaust your years, but each will contribute his years to yours.
Seneca.
#17. My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.
Jonathan Maberry
#18. We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.
Henry David Thoreau
#19. One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
Seneca The Younger
#20. Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because death is a part of life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#21. Although the testimony of my mother's life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.
Billy Graham
#22. I'm the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world - how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death."
"You must be fun at parties," I said.
Rick Riordan
#23. I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me how to die well and live well.
Michel De Montaigne
#24. I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
Bear Grylls
#25. Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
Seneca The Younger
#27. I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
Georg Buchner
#28. Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
Katherine Anne Porter
#29. Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#30. We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.
Andrew Levitas
#31. Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#32. But learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die. So many of the finest men have put aside all
Seneca.
#33. She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.
Jardine Libaire
#34. I seek in the reading of my books only to please myself by an irreproachable diversion; or if I study it is for no other science than that which treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and live well.
Michel De Montaigne
#35. If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel De Montaigne
#36. He will live ill who does not know how to die well
Seneca.
#37. To live, one must learn how to die, because when you die for ideas that will live. You live forever.
Henry Johnson Jr
#38. In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.
Atul Gawande
#39. Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy ...
M.F.K. Fisher
#40. We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. MONTAIGNE
Sogyal Rinpoche
#41. While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
Oliver Bowden
#42. I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. If I did not know how to live, I shall know how to die.
Dorothy Dunnett
#45. Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
Seneca.
#46. It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and
what will perhaps make you wonder more
it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Seneca.
#47. Nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.
Madame De Stael
#48. Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.
Mark Twain
#49. Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
Teresa Of Avila
#50. I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.
Jose Rizal
#51. Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.
Rajneesh
#52. It seems as if no man had ever died in America before, for in order to die you must first have lived. These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. A knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.
Richard Wright
#54. S ometimes I wish I was n o t alive. B u t I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I fee l my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning.
Anonymous
#55. There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.
J. Michael Straczynski
#56. I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?
Ernest Gaines
#57. As long as you do not know how to die and come to life again, you are but a sorry traveler on this dark earth.
Alan W. Watts
#58. There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
Michel De Montaigne
#59. You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.
Mitch Albom
#60. If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.
Stephen King
#61. Cyrano: The leaves
Roxane: What color
Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.
Cyrano: Yes
they know how to die. A little way
From the branch to the earth, a little fear
Of mingling with the common dust
and yet
They go down gracefully
a fall that seems
Like flying!
Edmond Rostand
#62. That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
Eugene H. Peterson
#63. I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die.
Ralston Bowles
#64. We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
Omar Nelson Bradley
#65. All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Billy Graham
#67. Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends!
Alistair Begg
#68. Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
Thomas Southerne
#69. By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.
Dean Koontz
#70. Learn how to die, and you learn how to live." I
Mitch Albom
#72. Fear is flooding over me, like water.
The living know nothing. Teach me, dead ones, how to die without fear, or at least without horror. Because death is senseless, as is life.
Mesa Selimovic
#73. I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.
Marcus Sedgwick
#74. Like many silly codes of bravery and manliness, the meat of my father's instruction on how to die well can be distilled to a simple slogan: Die angry at maximum volume. (Dying silently is out of the question; the world's last Druid should not go gentle into that good night.) During
Kevin Hearne
#75. You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.
Jeff Tweedy
#76. This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Harold Pinter
#77. Can the theater teach us to wait? To forestall our satisfaction? Poems teach us how to wait. The natural world makes us wait. Erik Satie teaches us how to wait. And so does much music. Will YouTube teach us how to wait? Will YouTube teach us how to die?
Sarah Ruhl
#78. If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
Lord Byron
#80. Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die.
Seneca.
#82. If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their cause.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#83. You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.
Cornel West
#84. It is not certain where Death awaits us, so let us await it everywhere. To think of death beforehand is to think of our liberty. Whoever learns how to die has learned how not to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint.xi
Michel De Montaigne
#85. Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
Jeanne Moreau
#86. 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.
Lord Byron
#88. I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.
Julie Murphy
#89. But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
Beilby Porteus
#90. They know how to die-a little way from the branch to the earth, a little fear of mingling with common dust and yet they go down gracefully-a fail that seems like flying!
Edmond Rostand
#91. No one had taught us what freedom means. We'd only ever learned how to die for freedom.
Svetlana Alexievich
#92. There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by the renunciation of life; only the ripe fruit of the here and now that has been seized and bitten will spread its indescribable taste in us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#93. Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#94. The Secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret has always been how to die.
Dan Brown
#95. Also, as I looked at the mite of a youth with the heart of a lion, I thought, this is the type that on occasion rears barricades and shows the world that men have not forgotten how to die.
Jack London
#96. It is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#97. All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people's brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#98. The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
Baruch Spinoza
#99. Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#100. Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
