Richard Paul Evans Quotes

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

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

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

Don't live in fear of dying.

I'm not afraid to die. But I'm afraid to not live.

I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with your mortality - and recognizing that you are mortal. I'm trying to see what a gift life is and how quickly it can be extinguished, without any warning.

Cancer makes you realise that you will be dead one day. It's so common seeing people dying and falling sick, but we aren't really ever able to comprehend it ourselves. The realisation that I am here for a certain period of time and will be gone after that made me value my time and life.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Life is precious and it's what you do with it that keeps you alive on the inside.It's not enough just to live and take that gift for granted.Each one of us has fears,but the more we work to overome them,the more we are able to enjoy our lives.