Libba Bray Quotes

I'm talking about living life to its fullest.

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?

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.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

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

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

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

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

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

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

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.

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.

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

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?

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

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we 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.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.