Dean Ambrose Quotes

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

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?

If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.

I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

My goal before I die is to get all of my thoughts out.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

I think you die the way you live.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable. Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

The most important thing to do before you die is live.