Quotes & Sayings About Death And Living Life To The Fullest

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. — Emm Cole

The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same. — Patti Digh

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Don't spend too much time grieving for me, Elena. I know you're probably a little sad as you're reading this, since that means I'm dead and you're having to learn how to go on in a new way. I would be sad if you didn't miss me, so I won't tell you not to, but I will tell you to keep on living. The world is full of beautiful music, flowers, places, and experiences. Enjoy it all as much as you can. Just remember it's the people in your life that make it worthwhile...People and memories, not things are what's important in the end. Nothing else matters as much as that. — M. Reed McCall

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. They can't be tethered or held in your palm.
Just like a sparrow, they light on your porch. Their song might be brief, but how greedy would we be to ask for more? No, you cannot keep a sparrow. You can only hope that as they fly away, they take a little bit of you with them. — Emm Cole

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. — Karl Pilkington

I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living — Saji Ijiyemi

Yes, it will all end one day; but today is worth living. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

And this love between Henry and Fora . . . at first, it was a small, uncertain thing, like the glow of the morning sunos the horizon. And then it was its own wild animal, bucking against the world and anything that threatened it, so hot it could burn and sometimes did. And then it was quiet, as quiet as a snowfall, covering everything, certain of its place, even as it was certain it could not last forever. — Martha Brockenbrough

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect. — Joss Whedon

Death is most terrifying to those who have yet to live. — Dan Pearce

You're not just getting old, you're getting closer to your death; and you don't want to miss anything. — J. Limbu

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn't become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life. — Shaun Hick

Anything man can make, man can destroy. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett