“You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.”

“You haven't lived until you've died in California.”

Mort Sahl (1927–2021) American comedian and actor

“Always knowing you're going to die
And until then knowing you've got to live.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.”

Thomas Bernhard book Woodcutters

“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“You haven't lived until you've sailed”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

“If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

“Love while you've got
love to give.
Live while you've got
life to live.”

Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet

“You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer