Pete Townshend Quotes

To live is to die.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

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

Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.

Birth was the death of him.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

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

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

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

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

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

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.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

We are mortals, we will die one day.