Robert Fulghum Quotes

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

Since there is absolutely no logical reason to assume there is an afterlife, I decided to make the life I have now as much fun as possible.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

I enjoy every moment because I believe that once we die, that's it. We're not coming back.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.