Common Quote by William Shakespeare

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

— John Denham

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to…

— Henry Suso

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death…

— John Milton

“It is in the nature of all living things to die. The sick and old are drawn to it as into the dark centre…

— Djibril al-Ayad

“Thou knowest all; I seek in vain What lands to till or sow with seed - The land is black with briar and weed,…

— Oscar Wilde

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

— John Milton

“The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared.

— Thomas a Kempis

Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in that vast…

— Gerhard Tersteegen

Something must die so that others can live.

— Lauren Oliver

Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death,…

— Lucretius

“Mortality is the time to learn first of God and the gospel and to perform the ordinances. After our feet are set on the…

— Spencer W. Kimball