Charlie Kaufman Quotes

All true stories end in death.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

The only certainty life contains is death.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.