Nelson Algren Quotes

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Life is an incurable disease.

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

I hate Sridevi. I hate her for making me realise that she, too, is finally only just a human being. I hate that her heart, too, has to beat to live.

I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.

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.

Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.

The sparrow still falls.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

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

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

I always know I can die at any moment.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

I don't feel invincible because I'm human.

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

Mortality defines the human condition.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

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

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

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

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

Being dead is being weak and walled off.