Billy Graham Quotes

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

Remember that I too am mortal.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

I'm dying, but so are you

I'm always aware of mortality.