Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

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.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

We all have to believe in something in order to exist successfully in this world and to enjoy our time here, which is short. I know that.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.

I'm gonna live till I die.