Glen Duncan Quotes

Life is an incurable disease.

I'm just a guy. If you hit me, I hurt, and if you cut me, I bleed.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

To have a body is to suffer.

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

The sparrow still falls.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

What I've been thinking about recently is the idea of finite and fragility. Either we're acknowledging that our lives here are finite, this moment is finite, and that this whole world is fragile, or we're not, but it is really happening and that is really true.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

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.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.