Bernie Siegel Quotes

This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!

I'm gonna live till I die.

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

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.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

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

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

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