Margaret Deland Quotes

Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone's running from.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I have a rendezvous with life.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Our business is with life, not death.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Everyone has to die someday. I'd rather die after doing something worthwhile.

I fear not living fully.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.