Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

The living are more important than the dead.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

Each generation drives its plow over the bones of the dead.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Some people live. Some people die.

No one gets out of here alive.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

The dead are way more organized than the living.

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.