Demetri Martin Quotes

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

All who are born are always dying.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

We die, because we live.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

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.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

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.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Mortality defines the human condition.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

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

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.