Edward Dahlberg Quotes

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

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.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter" -The Brightest Star in the Sky.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

To live is to die.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.