Life Completion Quotes

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

My art completes my life.

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

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

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

It is important that when we come to die we have nothing to do but die.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

Painting completed my life.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition.

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to prepare - to say what you need to say; to arrange your estate - and the ones in which you get to choose, or at least have some knowledge of, how and when it might happen. One can't elude death, but one can have a good death.

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.