Richard M. Weaver Quotes

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Death is a very important part of life.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

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.

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

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.

To live is to die.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

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.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

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

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.