Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

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.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

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.

I prepare for death by living.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

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

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

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

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.

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

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

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

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

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.