Gilda Radner Quotes

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

He that is once borne, once must dy.

If millions are born millions must die.

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.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

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

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

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

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

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

I had spent so much time studying literature at Stanford and the history of medicine at Cambridge in an attempt to better understand the particularities of death, only to come away feeling like they were still unknowable to me.

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

A person is a process, one that leads to death.