Blaise Pascal Quotes

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Life is an incurable disease.

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

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

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

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.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

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

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.