Stephen Evans Quotes

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

Mortality defines the human condition.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

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

All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.

When you dead, you dead.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

We are all terminal.

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

Everyone is going to die.

We're all going to die.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

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

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.