Joss Whedon Quotes

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

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.

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

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.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

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.

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.

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

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

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

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

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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

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.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.