Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.

i thought i was learning to live but i was learning to die

Everybody knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently,’ Morrie said. ‘So we kid ourselves about death,’ I (Mitch) said. ‘Yes, but there’s a better approach. To know you’re going to die and be prepared for it at any time. That’s better. That way you can be actually be more involved in your life while you’re living. . . Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, ‘Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?... The truth is, Mitch, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live… Most of us walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully because we’re half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do… Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.

Pada saat saya berpikir bahwa saya telah belajar bagaimana hidup, sebenarnya saya telah belajar cara untuk mati.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live,” said Seneca two millennia ago, “and what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die.

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.

You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.

Now I see that if one doesn’t know how to die, one can hardly know how to live — because death is a part of life.

I am driven by the yearning to learn how to live; how to lead a meaningful life; the fear of not having yet learned how to die.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

You don’t understand death, you learn to acquiesce in death.

Yo no vivía, y ahora vivo; pero ahora que vivo es cuando siento lo que es morir