William A. Drake Quotes

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Death has a way of making us all stop and think about life.

Death is a very important part of life.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

To live is to die.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

I always know I can die at any moment.

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.

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.