Zhuangzi Quotes

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.

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

I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

Men die and they are not happy.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.

Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.