Steve Gleason Quotes

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

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.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

Above all, learn to live when you're dying.

Some people live. Some people die.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

I'm gonna live till I die.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

While we walking, while we breathing, we dying... I be really feeling like, even though we live to die, some people be dying to live.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living.