Adam Young Quotes

If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.'

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Although pork may be a necessity sometimes, it is not the highest calling in life.

I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.

The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.