Joanna Lumley Quotes

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

We die, because we live.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Mortality defines the human condition.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

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

Live how we can, yet die we must.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

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

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Death is a very important part of life.

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.