Melvyn Douglas Quotes

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

We pass through this world but once.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

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

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.

Life is so fragile.

Every fight could be my last.

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular.

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

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.