Top 100 Quotes About When You Die
#1. When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?"
"Only if you had your hand stamped ...
Charles M. Schulz
#2. I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.
Rick Bass
#3. I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.
Lil' Wayne
#4. Jesus's central message was not primarily about how to get to heaven when you die, or about becoming a better person. The central message of Jesus was about the coming of God's kingdom.
Preston Sprinkle
#5. If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.
Philip Freneau
#6. You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.
Anne Lamott
#7. When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
Epicurus
#9. The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.
Howard Storm
#10. My feeling is, personally, I want to die first ... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment - and I don't want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous.
Bill Cosby
#11. Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don't seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there's a bridge now.
Terry Pratchett
#12. When you are born everyone around you are happy,but you are crying.
and when you die everyone around you are crying,but are you going to be happy?
Ahmed Shereen
#13. Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.
Frederick Lenz
#14. When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.
Mark Helprin
#15. You can be just as certain that God will give you little pieces of Heaven, little appetizers for Heaven, for the rest of your life on earth as you can be certain that He will give you the fullness of Heaven when you die.
Peter Kreeft
#16. Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#17. That mountain can grow awfully heavy sometimes," he sighed, taking a spear and buckler from Rhuarc. "When do you find a chance to put it down awhile?"
"When you die," Lan said simply
Robert Jordan
#18. When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.
Stuart Scott
#19. How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.
Cormac McCarthy
#20. No, you will not be cooked on a fire when you die. Because you are not a fish.
Margaret Atwood
#21. The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.
Orrin Woodward
#22. The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
John Ortberg
#23. If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent.
Rich Cohen
#24. When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'
Tony Snow
#25. Anyone who tells you that they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you dont. How can I be so sure? Because I dont know and you do not possess mental powers that I do not.
Bill Maher
#26. You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now and today, and it's supposed to be like that. You're supposed to delight in what's right in front of you.
Greg Boyle
#27. Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself.
Brandi L. Bates
#28. If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.
Timothy Keller
#29. Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
Cecelia Ahern
#30. When you die, there's that much less breath to the world, and across continents someone supposedly separate gasps for air. When Marie, Joseph, peter, Moxi, Oscar, when I weep for you, don't forget I weep as well for me.
Lauren Slater
#31. There are facts. There are suppositions. There are beliefs. Learn to keep them separate, Sergeant. All men die. Fact. Death may not be the end. Supposition. There's pie in the sky when you die. Belief.
P.D. James
#33. Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
Louis Armstrong
#34. Well, it's like this," began Mother, "When you die you go and live in another part of London. And that's it." ~ North London Book of the Dead
Will Self
#35. Alex moved closer to me, never taking his eyes from mine. "What if your eternity doesn't start when you die?" he asked carefully. "What if your eternity has been going on since before you were born?"
I stared at him with a blank face, wondering what drugs he was on.
Angela Corbett
#36. Your soul is drenched black with the blood of your victims, my dear, and that is why you can't see it. When you die, that heavy blood filled essence will sink to the bottom of the earth where you will burn in eternity for your crimes.
Maria V. Snyder
#37. When you die, you don't get to catch snowflakes on your tongue. You don't get to breathe winter in, deep in your lungs. You can't lie in bed and watch for the lights of the passing town plow. You can't suck on an icicle until your forehead hurts.
Jodi Picoult
#38. When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
Stuart Scott
#39. And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
Bill Murray
#40. You'll have pie in the sky when you die.
Joe Hill
#41. When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
Elie Wiesel
#42. Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Mark Victor Hansen
#43. I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.
Marcel Duchamp
#44. When you die, there is nothing
only a life that will be forgotten."
-from "Gathering Ashes
Yasunari Kawabata
#45. Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI.
Lisa Gardner
#46. It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
Roger Maris
#47. When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind ... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.
Kevin Brockmeier
#48. Raise them up, and watch them do the same thing, generation after generation, so that when you die you know you are permanently a part of the great web of life. That you are not a loose thread, snipped off.
Orson Scott Card
#49. Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
Natalie Goldberg
#50. No matter how rich you become, how famous or how powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
Michael Prichard
#51. They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
Lorrie Moore
#52. I hate the thought of someone never being missed,' said Ianto sadly. 'It's the ultimate humiliation, surely. So unimportant in life that no one even notices when you die.
Trevor Baxendale
#53. Your house is lovely," I say, even though it isn't. It's old; it could use a good cleaning. But the things inside it are lovely.
"It's empty now. All my things sold up. Can't take it with you, you know."
"You mean when you die?" I whisper.
He glares at me. "No. I mean to the nursing home.
Jenny Han
#54. When you die it's the end of your life.
Sam Shepard
#55. I wasn't scared, but I had started making sure the gate was locked at night and asking God what happens when you die.
Malala Yousafzai
#56. Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you'll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.
Shigeo Shingo
#57. Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.
Barbara Johnson
#58. You always have a lot going on Harper. It's like your thing. When you die in a hundred years, they'll probably write on your gravestone, 'Here lies Harper Price-Dang it, She Still had Stuff To Do!
Rachel Hawkins
#59. There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#60. What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#61. When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Get used to it. She'll be there for the rest of your life. She'll be there on birthdays, at Christmastime, when you get your period, when you graduate, have sex, when you marry, have children, when you die. She'll be there and she won't be there.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#63. They say when you die, your life flashes before your eyes.
It's true.
Except all I can see is Cole.
Because he was my life.
Jenn Cooksey
#64. When you die you say "Game Over" and that's all the game is over. You as an actor you die with this character stuff, but a new character is build.
Deyth Banger
#65. I don't like to stop. I believe you stop when you die.
Lil' Wayne
#66. Taxes," said rich dad. "You're taxed when you earn. You're taxed when you spend. You're taxed when you save. You're taxed when you die." "Why do people let the government do that to them?" "The rich don't," said rich dad with a smile. "The poor and the middle class do.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#67. I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#68. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ~Cherokee Proverb
Meredith Allard
#69. Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.
Albert Camus
#70. Angelina said, "Mom. I don't want you to die. That's the whole thing. You took from me the ability to care for you in your old age, and I wanted to be with you when you died, when you die. Mom. I wanted that.
Elizabeth Strout
#71. It was more than that, he said, looking down briefly at her. Love fades when you die. I am clearly dead, but my love for her hasn't diminished. It still burns inside me like a flicker in a flame.
Rachel M. Greenebaum
#72. When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
Roberto Bolano
#73. Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
Tamora Pierce
#74. Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#75. Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing deconstructing I'm going to start building ... What matters is what you are doing when you die ... I want to be building.
Muriel Barbery
#76. Son, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.
Robin S. Sharma
#77. suppose the god who confronts you when you die turns out to be Baal, and suppose Baal is just as jealous as his old rival Yahweh was said to be. Mightn't Pascal have been better off wagering on no god at all rather than on the wrong god?
Richard Dawkins
#78. When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
Tony Campolo
#79. What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
Epictetus
#80. When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had.
Merlin Mann
#81. God is not someone you meet when you die. His smiling face will be the first and the most familiar to greet you on the other side of mortality. You'll recognize Him and know in your heart of hearts that you're not entering a new sphere, but returning home to the place you've always belonged.
Toni Sorenson
#82. When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
Jim Butcher
#83. I am death and I am here to take you away from this world. No one will ever care that you are missing. When you die you will forget all of this and there will be nothing more for you.
C.V. Hunt
#84. When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
Robert Bringhurst
#85. It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.
Ozzy Osbourne
#86. When you die, i.e., when your physical body is finished with this earth ... and your astral entity goes on to the astral world ... it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.
Lobsang Rampa
#87. Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#88. I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there
Woody Guthrie
#89. I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.
Norman Vincent Peale
#90. Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.
Jerry Spinelli
#91. It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.
Chuck Feeney
#92. I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.
Norman Vincent Peale
#93. It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.
J.D. Salinger
#94. I don't know what happens when you die. I've never been dead. I'm just interested.
Elena Tonra
#95. It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Juvenal
#96. Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave
Michael Lee West
#97. When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but that's only because they can't handle the idea of the world going on without them.
Leila Sales
#98. There is always time, it is never too late....When you die and you haven't done it, then it's too late!
Deyth Banger
#99. You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.
Anne Graham Lotz
#100. There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
Neil MacGregor
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