Gloria Steinem Quotes

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

I fear not living fully.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

I'm gonna live till I die.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae