Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.

Although you know that one day you will die, you live as if you won't.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Be who you are, even if it kills you.
It will. Over and over again.
Even as you live.

You have to give up! you have to give up!
You have to realize that someday you will die,
Until you know that, you are useless!

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

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

You too are going to die, and that's because you too were fortunate enough to have lived. You may not feel this. But go stand on a cliff sometime, and maybe you will.

Live your life as if you know you are going to die tomorrow, but plan your life as if you'll live forever.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

You have to die a few times before you can really
live.