Roger Ebert Quotes

To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.

We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops.

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.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

We are an episode between two oblivions.

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.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

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.

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

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

Everything that gets born dies.