Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

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

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

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

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

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

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

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

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.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

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

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

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

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

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

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Death does determine life.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

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