Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

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.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

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.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

There are some people who don't want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest.

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

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.