Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to…

“Most people ebb and flow in torment between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet,…

— Jeff Wheeler

“Rehearse your death every morning and night. Only when you constantly live as though already a corpse (jōjū shinimi) will you be able to…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

A person has learned much who has learned how to die.

— Mrthrill

“Montaigne: “To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.” Being…

— Arianna Huffington

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

— Seneca the Younger

“This time it was true death we heard - oblivion, void, the absolute - and the beauty of the experience was rooted in our…

— Eugene Lim

“I know any move I would make toward Darius, any act of recognition, would only result in punishment for him. So we just stare…

— Suzanne Collins

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Death, as they say, doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one.”

— Neal Shusterman

Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my love! Through…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Death,” I say. “ It’s the one thing they haven’t fully conquered. They want to know more about it.”

— Ally Condie

Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you…

— Anne Sexton

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and…

— Robert Sternberg