Bob Dylan Quotes

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

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

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.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

We are all terminal.

The sole equality on earth is death.

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.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

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.

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

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.