Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

I prepare for death by living.

Don't live in fear of dying.

Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.

We get only one life, and you need to just - give it. Give it your all.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

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

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

Live for each second without hesitation

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.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

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

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.

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.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.