Robert Preston Quotes

Mortality defines the human condition.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

We are all terminal.

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

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

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.