David Milch Quotes

You realize as you get older that tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things - and Ant did.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

I don't think I'm invincible.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

I don't think I'm going to live until I'm 70, no; I could die tomorrow. So there isn't a panic that time is running out, but there is an element that anything could happen.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.