Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.

We die, because we live.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

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.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Time takes all and gives all.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

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

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

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

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.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

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