Marisha Pessl Quotes

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Death is an absolute marvel.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

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

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

… where they will vanish in the night and fog.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

Life is like this: things come and go.

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.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

Life will go on - until it doesn't.

You have to accept the fact that as long as you are alive, you have something to lose. Living is dangerous.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.