John Ruskin Quotes

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

While we walking, while we breathing, we dying... I be really feeling like, even though we live to die, some people be dying to live.

I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!

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

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

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

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

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

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

So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

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

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.