Egon Schiele Quotes

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

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.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

To live is to die.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Everything that gets born dies.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Death does determine life.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.