Magnus Magnusson Quotes

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I always know I can die at any moment.

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

Mortality defines the human condition.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

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.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Life is an incurable disease.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

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

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

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

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

The moment you're born you're done for.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.