While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.