Steven Erikson Quotes

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

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.

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.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

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

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.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

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

Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

We die, because we live.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.