Marian Keyes Quotes

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

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

The meaning of life is that it stops.

We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.

A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

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

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

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

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by