Allen Tate Quotes

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

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

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.

If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

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.

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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

Don't live in fear of dying.

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

If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

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?

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

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

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.

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

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

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

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

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.