Desmond Morris Quotes

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

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.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Each instant of life is a step toward 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.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

Everything that gets born dies.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

We're here for such a short period of time.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

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

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.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

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

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

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

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.