Bindi Irwin Quotes

I remember, growing up, losing a sister, and - life is short. Make the most of your opportunities.

If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.

I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.

My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

When you lose someone you love, you don't think the same way. And that's why I say I enjoy life: because it goes very fast.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

I envy the dead.

You never know how much time you have with someone.

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

My dad died of a stroke.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.