Christopher Fry Quotes

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.