Death

C. Sean Mcgee
“Only when one allows themself the right to die, do they then give yourself the permission to live.” — C. Sean McGee
Og Mandino
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile.” — Og Mandino
Alan Watts
“To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.” — Alan Watts
Ray Bradbury
“Stuff your eyes with wonder... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” — Ray Bradbury
Chinese Proverb
“There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.” — Chinese Proverb
Anne Frank
“The dead receive more flowers than the living because regret is stronger than gratitude.” — Anne Frank
Zhuangzi
“Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.” — Zhuangzi
Criss Jami
“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.” — Criss Jami
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
Ming-dao Deng
“Death is not an ending. It is a transformation.” — Ming-Dao Deng
Dogen
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.” — Dogen
Bhagavad Gita
“The soul is neither born, and nor does it die.” — Bhagavad Gita
Morihei Ueshiba
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” — Morihei Ueshiba
Wayne Gretzky
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” — Wayne Gretzky
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
Hans Christian Andersen
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.” — Hans Christian Andersen
Sigmund Freud
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” — Sigmund Freud
Dan Millman
“Embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.” — Dan Millman
Alexander Pope
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.” — Alexander Pope
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
Alexandre Dumas
“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.” — Alexandre Dumas
Gilbert Chesterton
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — Gilbert Chesterton
Aristotle
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle
Bob Marley
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.” — Bob Marley
Elon Musk
“I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated.” — Elon Musk
Marcus Aurelius
“Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back.” — Marcus Aurelius
Gilbert Chesterton
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” — Gilbert Chesterton
Socrates
“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” — Socrates
Stephen Hawking
“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.” — Stephen Hawking
Gilbert Chesterton
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” — Gilbert Chesterton
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
Robert Greene
“We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.” — Robert Greene
Publilius Syrus
“The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself.” — Publilius Syrus
Seneca
“You want to live but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying and tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?” — Seneca
Dan Millman
“Better to live until you die.” — Dan Millman
Euripides
“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” — Euripides
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.
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
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
Albus Dumbledore
“It's the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” — Albus Dumbledore
Gilbert Chesterton
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” — Gilbert Chesterton
Herbert Hoover
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover
Henry David Thoreau
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau
Dan Millman
“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses.” — 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
Dan Millman
“Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't really live at all.” — Dan Millman
Robert Greene
“When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.” — Robert Greene
Theodore Roosevelt
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” — Theodore Roosevelt
D. H. Lawrence
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.” — D. H. Lawrence

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