Chad Harbach Quotes

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.

Mortality defines the human condition.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

You are the result of billions of years of evolution. You will only live for a few years and will never exist again. Absolutely beautiful

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

Life, the permission to know death.

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

We die, because we live.

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.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk in the fridge to go sour; that everyday functional things will outlive us and prove that we weren't ready to go; that we weren't smart or knowing or heroic; that we were just animals whose animal bodies stopped working without any sort of schedule or any consent from us.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

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

You realize mortality is everywhere.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

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.