Cal Thomas Quotes

You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

Every man alive in the world is a beggar of one sort or another, every last one of them, great and small. The priest begs God for grace, and the king begs something for something. Sometimes he begs the people for loyalty, sometimes he begs God to forgive him

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that's life.

Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.

I don't like ageing, I don't like being older, time is going too fast, and life is like a train running at high speed. I have a real problem with it.

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

Life is just the time between crapping yourself.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

Why is youth so short and age so long?