While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. "What will be the use of that?" he was asked. "To know this tune before dying." If I dare repeat this reply long since trivialized by the handbooks, it is because it seems to me the sole serious justification of any desire to know, whether exercised on the brink of death or at any other moment of existence.
- Emil Cioran
People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before dying. The process is called Living
- Terry Pratchett
Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
- David Gemmell
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
- Stanislav Grof
If politicians lived to be only 30-years-old before dying, that'd still be 30 years too long.
- Jarod Kintz
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
... those people who believe in previous lives always think they were dukes or queens or something, ignoring the fact that most people back then spent their whole lives up to their knees in shit before dying of toothless old age at thirty.
- Tad Williams
- Emil Cioran
People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before dying. The process is called Living
- Terry Pratchett
Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
- David Gemmell
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
- Stanislav Grof
If politicians lived to be only 30-years-old before dying, that'd still be 30 years too long.
- Jarod Kintz
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
... those people who believe in previous lives always think they were dukes or queens or something, ignoring the fact that most people back then spent their whole lives up to their knees in shit before dying of toothless old age at thirty.
- Tad Williams
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