Matt Skiba Quotes

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

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

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

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!

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. I'm a positive guy. When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency.

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

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.

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

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.