Etgar Keret Quotes

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

I cannot compete with the grave.

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

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

All live to die, and rise to fall.

Today will die tomorrow.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

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

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

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