“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die”.
Maya Angelou
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”
Khalil Gibran
“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.”
Michelangelo
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
“I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.”
Mary Roach
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
