Libba Bray Quotes

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

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

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

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?

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

Nobody's life is perfect and in the grand scheme of things, life is short. I think it's so important to live life to its fullest and choose to smile.

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

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

I'm not afraid to die. But I'm afraid to not live.

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.