Arundhati Roy Quotes

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

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?

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

Lord, let me live until I die.

For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

I'm talking about living life to its fullest.

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

I prepare for death by living.

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

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

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

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

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

You only live once, so live a good life!