CARPE DIEM: DEATH PROVOKING QUOTES THAT WILL INSPIRE YOUR LIFE

So many people avoid talking about death because they love their life so much that they never think of dying. But death is a price that we must all pay some day. We do not know how much time we have left, so we have to make the best of the moment. I have compiled 40 of the most inspirational quotes that would help you focus more on living a worthy life before you eventually die. Get Inspired! 


"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new"
~ Steve Jobs 

"If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, then he isn’t fit to live"
~ Martin Luther King Jr                   
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been"
~ Robert Schuller 

"If you spend all your time worrying about death, then living is not going to be much fun"
~ Anonymous

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victories for humanity"
~ Horace Mann

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will"
~ Chuck Palahnuik

"Always do something that will make you look good if you were to die in the middle of it"
~ Anonymous

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered, either by themselves or by others"
~ Mike Twain

"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are too afraid to die"
~ Les Brown

"Because we do not know when we would die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well"
~ Brandon Lee

You must realize that one day you will die, until then you are worthless.
~ Chuck Palahnuik

Our death is not an end if we can live in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
~ Albert Einstein

When I die it will be a shipwreck and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sunk down with it.
~ Pablo Picasso

I have been a fighter. If you tell me I can’t, I will die trying to prove you wrong.
~ R.A Salvatore

When you cease to make any contribution, you begin to die.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nothing certain in a man's life except this; that he must lose it.
~ Aeschylus

To die is poignantly bitter but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
~ Anonymous

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - Perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
~ Mignon McLaughlin

Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling unto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
~ Charles Bokowski

Live rich, die poor. Never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
~ Walter Annenberg

Each night when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning when I wake up I am reborn.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

To execute great things, one should live as though one will never die.
~ Luc De Clapiers

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~ Norman Cousins

I believe we should die with decency, so that at least decency will survive.
~ Dag HammarskJold

Dying is not scary at all; it is the sadness of not been prepared for it scares the shit out of us.
~ Anonymous

Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying.
~ Christain Furchtegoff

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives; that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
~ Pope Paul VI

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
~ Mark Twain

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
~ Stephen Vincent Benét

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every man dies but not every man lives.
~ William Ross Wallace

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ~ Henry Van Dyke

You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough. 
~ Adam Marshall
Death helps us to see what is worth trusting and loving and what is a waste of time.
~ J. Neville Ward

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
~ Zachary Scott

The question is not whether we would die but how we will live.
~ Joan Borysenko

Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today. ~ James Dean

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
 ~ Diane Ackerman

We are born alone, we live alone and we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we are not alone.
 ~ Orson Welles



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