Dave Matthews Quotes

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably live the same way.

What is life about? Two things: love and death.

When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.

I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.

I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing that I had given up my life to little or nothing, only then to find that it was gone. p 3

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

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

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?