Alan Ball Quotes

In fact living is dying.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.

We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

All who are born are always dying.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

Tomorrow is another day toward death.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

Some people were born just so they could be buried.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.

What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.