Eric Idle Quotes

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

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.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

Everything that gets born dies.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Time is long but life is short.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.

We're only immortal for a limited time.