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

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.

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

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

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

One has to know what it is to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be known only by seeking them out. These implications cannot be taught, they must be learned.

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.

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.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

ness-that Morrie was looking at life from some very different place than anyone else I knew. A healthier place. A more sensible place. And he was about to die.
But it was also becoming clear to me- through his courage, his humor, his patience, and his openIf some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.

you should learn as if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

La vida acaba cuando hemos aprendido todo lo que tenemos que aprender.

"Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."

He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.