Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.”

— Toba Beta

“One cannot die if one was never alive to begin with.”

— Aimee Carter

“We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.”

— Jim Paredes

“In America, my initial impression was that death or the possibility of it always seemed to come as a surprise, as if we took…

— Abraham Verghese

“The right way to live is something we can only teach the dead.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Somebody had to die in order that somebody else can go on living.”

— Lurlene McDaniel

“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to survive.”

— Mitch Albom

“You must first die before you're killed.”

— Tsugumi Ohba

“For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”

— John Ruskin

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”

— James Thurber

“Once the body has known death, it never lives the same again.”

— Arthur W. Frank