Marcelene Cox Quotes

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

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

Life is wasted on the living.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.

I always know I can die at any moment.

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.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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