“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”
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Eckhart Tolle 251
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“You live you die and death not ends it.”
An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: We live, we die
and death not ends it
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it

“Is "I hope you all die a painful death" too strong?”
Linus to the hardware manufacturers that refuse to release the specifications of their hardware so they could operate with the Linux kernel.
Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux, 2007-08-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-08-22, 2007-08-25, http://web.archive.org/web/1/apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about http://apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about,
2000s, 2007

“T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.”
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
Caesar, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)

As quoted in The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala (1909) by Henry Baerlein, XLVII

“This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!”
Reprinted in The Wild Muir ISBN 0-939666-75-8 page 38, and Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 234
Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869