Eugene Kennedy Quotes

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

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.

We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such that death seems unforgivable. We are temporary organs of the race, cells in the body of life; we die and drop away that life may remain young and strong. If we were to live forever, growth would be stifled, and youth would find no room on earth. Death, like style, is the removal of rubbish, the circumcision of the superfluous. In the midst of death life renews itself immortally.

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

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

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.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Death is a very important part of life.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

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.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

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

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.