John Hodgman Quotes

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

Death is an absolute marvel.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I envy the dead.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

Death is an art, you know.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.

Time is the devourer of all things.

The past is buried and I mourn it with greater pain than many among you, because no human power can awaken it when the Crown itself has scattered ashes upon the coffin.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

But then it passed, as all things do.

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.