Tupac Shakur Quotes

What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time's up?

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.

I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

Is there life before death? - that is the question!

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.