Kalki Koechlin Quotes

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

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

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.

We all take life for granted, one way or another.

We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.

I'm always aware of mortality.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.