Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

Until today, you may not have realized that your life provides the content of your obituary. Just for today, examine your life. Think about all of the things you want to leave behind. Remember, the good thing about doing this today is that you still have time to rewrite your life's content if necessary.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully, I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty outline. She'll make me little tequila sunrises and I'll read my complete works then. Then, I'll decide whether I think I've done something good or not. I'll reserve my judgment until then.

It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae

When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.

In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.