Abraham Cowley Quotes

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.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

I always know I can die at any moment.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

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.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Mortality defines the human condition.

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

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

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

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

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

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

To have a body is to suffer.

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

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.