Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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

Nothing in life is promised except death.

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

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!

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.

Life will go on - until it doesn't.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.