Alan Watts Quotes

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

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.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.