Randall Jarrell Quotes

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.

We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

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 all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

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

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

All who are born are always dying.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

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.

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

We are all terminal.