William Morris Quotes

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?

I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death the whole life is summed up, in death you arrive. Life is a pilgrimage towards death. From the very beginning, death is coming. From the moment of birth, death has started coming towards you, you have started moving towards death.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

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

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.