Derrick Jensen Quotes

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

The most sacred thing you can get is time. That's all people want on their death bed; that's what it's all about.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

You never know how much time you'll have.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

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

I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.