Dave Matthews Quotes

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

We're all going to die someday - we might as well have fun.

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

Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Life is wasted on the living.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

I am all for the short and merry life.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?