Scott Westerfeld Quotes

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

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

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

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

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

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

It is natural to die as to be born.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.