Mordecai Richler 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.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

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

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

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

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

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

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

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

We're here for such a short period of time.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

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.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

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

Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.