Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right. From his speech at Stanford University during graduation in the spring of 2005.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. Last words

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony. His reply when asked in the 1960's how he expected he would die.

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose — to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.