Death

Pablo Picasso
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” — Pablo Picasso
Hans Christian Andersen
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.” — Hans Christian Andersen
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lao Tzu
“A man with outward courage dares to die: a man with inner courage dares to live.” — Lao Tzu
Zhuangzi
“Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.” — Zhuangzi
Henry David Thoreau
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau
Euripides
“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” — Euripides
Zhuangzi
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening” — Zhuangzi
Robert Greene
“We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.” — Robert Greene
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mark Twain
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain
Herbert Hoover
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover
Gilbert Chesterton
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — Gilbert Chesterton
Og Mandino
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Your life will never be the same again.” — Og Mandino
C. Sean Mcgee
“Only when one allows themself the right to die, do they then give yourself the permission to live.” — C. Sean McGee
Gilbert Chesterton
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” — Gilbert Chesterton
Stephen Hawking
“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.” — Stephen Hawking
Robert F. Kennedy
“A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.” — Robert F. Kennedy
Alexandre Dumas
“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.” — Alexandre Dumas
Robert Kiyosaki
“Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.” — Robert Kiyosaki
Og Mandino
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile.” — Og Mandino
Wayne Gretzky
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” — Wayne Gretzky
Virginia Woolf
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.” — Virginia Woolf
Aristotle
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.” — Aristotle
Benjamin Mays
“Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.” — Benjamin Mays
Kabir
“As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero.” — Kabir
Bob Marley
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.” — Bob Marley
Robert Greene
“When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.” — Robert Greene
Steve Jobs
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” — Steve Jobs
Napoleon Hill
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” — Napoleon Hill
Alexander Pope
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.” — Alexander Pope
Rita Mae Brown
“If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.” — Rita Mae Brown
Marcus Aurelius
“Think of yourself as dead. you have lived your life. Now, take what's left, and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius
Albus Dumbledore
“It's the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” — Albus Dumbledore
Dan Millman
“Embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.” — Dan Millman
Morihei Ueshiba
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” — Morihei Ueshiba
Franz Kafka
“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ” — Franz Kafka
Bhagavad Gita
“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.” — Bhagavad Gita
Coco Chanel
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.” — Coco Chanel
Dan Millman
“Better to live until you die.” — Dan Millman
Deepak Chopra
“The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.” — Deepak Chopra
Samuel Butler
“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.” — Samuel Butler
Kabir
“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.” — Kabir
Adi Da Samraj
“Fear of death is fear of the Unknown.” — Adi Da Samraj
Ming-dao Deng
“Death is not an ending. It is a transformation.” — Ming-Dao Deng
Alan Watts
“To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.” — Alan Watts
Confucius
“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ” — Confucius
Bhagavad Gita
“The soul is neither born, and nor does it die.” — Bhagavad Gita
Sigmund Freud
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” — Sigmund Freud
Dogen
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.” — Dogen

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