Alice Cary Quotes

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

I have a rendezvous with life.

Our business is with life, not death.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

I want to be all used up when I die.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.