Bonus Quote by Marcus Aurelius

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

— Alan Watts

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or…

— Marcus Aurelius

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

— Anais Nin

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up…

— Denis Johnson

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

— Jojo Moyes

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life…

— Arthur Golden

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest…

— Suzanne Weyn

I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was…

— Cornell Woolrich

To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the…

— Philip Kapleau

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

— Liam Gallagher

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So…

— Sarah Dessen