Ted Dekker Quotes

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.

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?

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

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want." "What do we want?" I asked blurrily. "Aw, man, you know," he said. "We just want, well, the same things these people wanted." "What was that?" He shrugged. "To live, I guess," he said.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.