Jim Butcher Quotes

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

From birth to death we are alone.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.