Fred Ebb Quotes

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

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

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.

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

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

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

I always think about life, and I think that we are here with a mission, and once we have done our mission, we go somewhere else.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.

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

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

For whatever you live is life.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

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

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.