Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

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?

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.

When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens and twenties. I realised putting things off in life can be dangerous because suddenly you can find you've run out of time.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

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?

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

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.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.