William Saroyan Quotes

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

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

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Live everyday as though it's your last 'cause one day you'll be right.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

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.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

If you want to put far more living in your life, start living every day as if it was your last.

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

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

Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you could die in your sleep. Most of us try to avoid the sense that death can come at any time, but its timing is unknown to us. Can we live each day as if it were our last? Can we relate to one another as if there were no tomorrow?

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

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.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.