Katherine Waterston Quotes

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

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

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

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

Human life is beyond comprehension.

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

There's no victory-condition for being human.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

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

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

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.