Gary Hume Quotes

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Death is a very important part of life.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

Time is death.

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.

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

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

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

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

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

At my age flowers scare me.

Everything that gets born dies.