Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.

Embrace life. You have life. There's a lot things going on out there.

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.

Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

She would live now, not read.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

Living is not breathing but doing.