Christopher Morley Quotes

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

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.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

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.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

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.

Life is wasted on the living.

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

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Life is a horizontal fall.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

For me, no matter what movie I make, no matter what the genre or the budget, they all have the same theme at their core: fear of death and happiness about living.