August Krogh Quotes

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy!

Even breathing is a contribution.

Breathing is optional, but I need some air.

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

We live and die in the midst of marvels.

Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.