1. Everyone is destined to die. It may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather. ——Sima Qian

2. There is no greater sorrow than death. ——Zhuang Zhou

3. Retirement is the beginning of death. ——Pablo Cassel

4. There is only one truth in the world, which is to be loyal to life and love it. ——Romain Rolland

5. A cold and lonely life is not as good as a vigorous death. ——Ba Jin

6. In life, you should help people in times of hardship and danger, and express your ambitions. Would you rather live a life of nothing but trivial things? ——Qiu Jin

7. In order to understand how short life is, a person must go through a long road of life. ——Schopenhauer

8. I smiled at the sky with my sword across my sword, leaving my liver and gallbladder intact.——Tan Sitong

9. How many things can I do in my life? It is as sudden as an electric shock. ——Tao Yuanming

10. Live as a hero, and die as a ghost. ——Li Qingzhao

11. Make life as gorgeous as summer flowers and death as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves. —— Tagore’s famous quotes on life and death

12. If life deceives you, don’t be melancholy or angry! Tolerate the bad times for now: just believe, happy days will come. ——Pushkin

13. I never regard comfort and happiness as the purpose of life itself. This ethical basis, I call it the ideal of the pigsty. ——Einstein

14. No matter how poor you are, you will never give up; ——Xu Mingkui's "Hundred Admonitions to Encourage Forbearance"

15. If you don't have true loyalty on weekdays, don't talk about life and death in emergencies. ——Shi Naian

16. Death is not the opposite of life, but will last forever as a part of life. ——Haruki Murakami

17. Life is not just breathing, life is activity. ——Rousseau

18. There are two tragedies in life: one is despair, the other is complacency. ——Bernard Shaw

19. The highest ideal in life is to seek benefits for the people. ——Dreiser

20. Life is just a moment. Death happens in an instant. ——Schiller