Thomas Browne Quotes

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Life is an incurable disease.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

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

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

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.

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.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

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'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.

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.

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.

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

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

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.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

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.

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.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.