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I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

— Dave Matthews

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✓Similar Perspectives

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

— Malachy McCourt

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

— Mitch Albom

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

— Giacomo Casanova

I think we go to our graves being a bit weird.

— David MacKenzie

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

— Ayn Rand

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

— Carla Bruni

I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.

— Brownie McGhee

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

— Mary Cheney

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.

— Maximillian Degenerez