Richard Paul Evans Quotes

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

I cannot compete with the grave.

Losing a parent makes you realize how temporary everything is - you're looking through someone's whole life in a drawer, and they're very simply gone.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.