Saber morir cuesta la vida.

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

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

The price of mortal existence is age.

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born.