Matt Skiba Quotes

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

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

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

Death is a very important part of life.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

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

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

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of 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.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

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