Mattie Stepanek Quotes

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

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

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.

Don't die until you're dead.

I prepare for death by living.

Don't live in fear of dying.

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

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.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

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

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

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

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

When doctors tell you that you have three weeks to live, you try to live a lifetime of moments in three weeks. But you say, 'To hell with three weeks.'

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.