Erasmus Darwin Quotes

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Mortality defines the human condition.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

We are all dying of life.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

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.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

I honestly feel it could all end tomorrow. Not just the band thing - I mean life.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.