Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

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

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.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

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.

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

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

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

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

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

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.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

We're here for such a short period of time.

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

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

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

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

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

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.