Gilda Radner Quotes

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

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

I don't think I'm going to live until I'm 70, no; I could die tomorrow. So there isn't a panic that time is running out, but there is an element that anything could happen.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

You realize as you get older that tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody.

You never know the plan. You never know what's going to happen. We are not even promised tomorrow. I just try to focus on one day at a time.

I'm not fixated on death but I know tomorrows are not guaranteed.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

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.