Christopher Moore Quotes

I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!

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.

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

There’s an old Ritadarion saying. You’re never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn)

By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.