Michael Redhill Quotes

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.

I have to have another child. I have to bring someone into this world that will be here for Dashiell.

One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

When I die there is nobody to take my place.

...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.