Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

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?

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.

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

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

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.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

One of the big things that I focus on is not having regrets, just taking every opportunity I have and going for it.

If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand 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.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.