Geraldine Brooks Quotes

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Survival was not enough. One had to live.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

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

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

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

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.