Chris Crutcher Quotes

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

To have died once is enough.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

I'm dying always.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

Death always seems to be around me.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.