Michael Wolff Quotes

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

All came from, and will goe to others.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Death, thou shalt die.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Death is a name for beauty not in use.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

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

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

We are all going to die, sometimes even in the middle of a lease.

A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.

We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.