Gerald Brenan Quotes

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

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

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

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

After losing Dad, there was the idea that none of us have forever. It really affects you. It makes you want to live each day as if it's your last.

I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die, and the only thing we can control is how we are and what we're doing in the meantime.

Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

Today is the only time we can possibly live.