Chris Gethard Quotes

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Our time on Earth is so random.

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

No matter how much funding I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today worth it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can walk out of here saying, 'That was a good day?''

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

Have fun. I don't kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn't change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that's why I try not to take any of what's happened too seriously.

You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.

Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

There is nothing assured to mortals.

You're dying every minute, but you won't die yet.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.