Richard Bach Quotes

When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us.

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

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

So that my life be brave, what though not long?