Carlos Castaneda Quotes

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

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

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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

Death is a very important part of life.

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.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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

Mortality defines the human condition.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

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

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

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.