Charlie Kaufman Quotes

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

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

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

No one gets out of here alive.

True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

All who are born are always dying.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

We are all dying of life.

No one escapes from life alive.

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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.