You Only Live Once Quotes Novels & Stories

ISA POV Life. No matter how miserable and sorrowful it can be, the fact remains that is the gift bestowed to us by the most high. And it can never be changed that we only live once. I know I have cheated death quite a few times, but eventually, there will come a time when I shut my eyes, and they will remain shut forever. Maybe they would open, but not in the given lifetime. But now was not the time. Yet!

So much that it’s so hard to breathe. “Can’t just enjoy this for a while?” I muffled, fighting the urge to cry again. “Hazel…” “I know… I know, Das… I….” “You know what… fuck it.” He said “What?” “Fuck it. We only live once. Enjoy it and when it’s time for you to cry, I’d be here. I’d buy all the tissue in the nearest store and I’d watch you cry and get better and we will find you a better man and you will be happy.” He blurted.

Brent pinched her cheek in some mild displeasure. "Are you that obsessed with going back to work at that place? I'm afraid I'll be rushing to that bar every night to beat the shit out of every man staring at you offstage." "Sir..." Hermosa looked at him with some resignation. "Listen to me first Hermosa, we always go through trials and tribulations in life, and as someone who has been there I want to tell you that we only live once. As clichéd as that is, the truth is that we have to figure out how to live our lives in the limited time we have, rather than throwing ourselves blindly into a hectic period of life. You'd be mistaken to think that's all your life is worth."

They have always shared a special connection. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all," I quoted Wilde. "Alya always insisted on doing the craziest things just to create memories and have something to look back on. I'm sure she would want you to live and make lots of memories." "That was perfect," Alya said, a proud smile on her face. "She lived in constant nostalgia," Kate chuckled. She really did. That made me smile. "And still quoting Wilde? Really?"

I only live for a year," I replied. "Why can't you just relax and stop making it seem like you are the only one dying? A lot of people are dying and they have no idea when, you have the opportunity to create beautiful memories but all you do is whine and put everything on a plan you aren't sure will work," he said. "How do you live like that?" he asked me. "If all you did was to nag, then I will rather get back to what I was doing," he said.

I snort. What a cliché quote some or other happy drunk motivational speaker concocted when he was at a loss for words. It must be the same asshole who suggested grabbing life by the horns, that winners never quit, and that everything happens for a reason. “Well, keep on dreaming, girl.” Cause that dream is not gonna happen. Luckily, that’s Axel’s shit. Not mine. I fake a smile, “Cheers!” and throw the alcohol down my throat before I bite into a piece of lemon. The sour taste causes goosebumps on my skin.

We can only be there for them when the time comes. One thing life has taught me is that in life we shouldn't live to please others, live to please ourselves. Do things according to you at your own time, not when someone wants. They are only holding you back, get out there, and do your thing. No matter how hard life gets, remind yourself that someone died today, someone slept with an empty stomach last night, someone achieved their dreams today, someone is on a hospital list hoping to get a kidney and you are lucky to be alive and healthy.

“Elliot once told me his favorite quote was from an ancient history class he took to impress a girl.” A few people in the crowd chuckled. Lori could remember how she had fell on the floor laughing after learning he had sat through at least two ancient history classes to impress a girl, the thought alone brought tears to her eyes. He didn’t even get the girl, but he could remember the quote. Apparently it was the only thing that stuck in the two hour class. “The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus said, ‘There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.’

“I was a bit wild back then.” I laugh. She was a bit of a party girl back then, the exact opposite of me. I had always been a bit less bold. More of a bookworm. She was the friend who would get me to try new things and live a bit more dangerously. “YOLO!” she’d laugh every time I hesitated. “YOLO” or “You Only Live Once” was kinda her motto.

Natalie said, “They already missed once. They won’t get a second chance. You won. You’re alive” I was alive alright. But I knew that this was not the end. Not by a long shot.