Brandon Lee Quotes

Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

I don't think I'm going to live until I'm 70, no; I could die tomorrow. So there isn't a panic that time is running out, but there is an element that anything could happen.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

Mortality defines the human condition.

At my age flowers scare me.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

You just never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.