Edward Albee Quotes

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

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

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?

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

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

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.

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.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

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'm talking about living life to its fullest.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

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

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.

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

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

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

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

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.