Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

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.

I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

To live with all my might, while I do live

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.