Dion Boucicault Quotes

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.

The most sacred thing you can get is time. That's all people want on their death bed; that's what it's all about.

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.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

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.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

You never know how much time you got.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.