Jordan Peterson Quotes

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

We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

No man is invincible.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Life is an incurable disease.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

I'm not immortal. I'm not unbeatable.

I'm not invincible.

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.

No one survives life.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It's hard to argue with death as a game-changer.

It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.