Dave Eggers Quotes

It is no way to live, to wait to love.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.