Peter McWilliams Quotes

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

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 isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

You never know how much time you have left.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

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

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.