Julie Kagawa Quotes

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

The meaning of life is that it stops.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

I always know I can die at any moment.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.