Alexander Smith Quotes

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

Death is Life's high meed.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

I think there's a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it's all going to end and we're mortal. I envy dogs. They don't know they're getting old! And they don't know it's towards the end. I mean, they never think, 'I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don't get 19, I'm a wreck.'

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.