Gale Sayers Quotes

You realize as you get older that tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody.

I don't think I'm going to live until I'm 70, no; I could die tomorrow. So there isn't a panic that time is running out, but there is an element that anything could happen.

You never know how much time you have left.

We're only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

I remember, growing up, losing a sister, and - life is short. Make the most of your opportunities.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

After losing Dad, there was the idea that none of us have forever. It really affects you. It makes you want to live each day as if it's your last.

You just never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.