Sarah Dessen Quotes

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

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?

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

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

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

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

It is no way to live, to wait to love.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

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

You only live once, so live a good life!

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.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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.

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