Aleister Crowley Quotes

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?

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

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

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 I fall if I die know I lived it to the fullest, if I fall if I die know I lived and missed some bullets

Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

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

When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I started to live like I never lived before. When the fear of death is gone, then nothing can bother you and nobody can stop you.

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

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

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.

I'm talking about living life to its fullest.

I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.