Pele Quotes

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

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

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

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.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

To live is to die.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Death is a very important part of life.

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

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

Everything that gets born dies.

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.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

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.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.