Olga Tokarczuk Quotes

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

Death levels all.

It doesn't matter what you believe in or where you're from. It doesn't matter what group you're in: we're all the same. We all end up in the same-sized box.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

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

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

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

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

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.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

We're all equal in sleep.

The only certainty life contains is death.

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.

No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way, To make everything right Is for god to just reach out And turn off the light!

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

I'm no different than you.

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.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.