Kaki King Quotes

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

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Life is wasted on the living.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

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

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

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

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.

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.

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

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.

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

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

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

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.