Irvine Welsh Quotes

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

You have to live life to its full chorizo.

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.

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

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

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.

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.

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

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

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.