Abu Bakr Quotes

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

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Time is numbered only to man.

A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

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

We pass through this world but once.

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

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.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

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

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.