Mark Manson Quotes

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Death is Life's high meed.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.