Character Quote by Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The best preparation for living well is to be prepared to die at any time.”

— Robert D. Smith

Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

— Anonymous

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.

— George Lincoln Rockwell

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A person who lives fully is prepared to die at any moment.

— Mark Twain

Being prepared to die is one of the greatest secrets of living.

— George Lincoln Rockwell

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

— Mark Twain

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into…

— Ronald Rolheiser

Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,…

— Steven Pinker

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

— Edward Abbey

“To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be…

— Shunryu Suzuki