Ernest Dowson Quotes

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

The living are just the dead on holiday

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

It's true that the biggest value of life is that it's going to stop. I was thinking when I was in New York the last time that all that we see that has importance is man-made. It isn't nature-made. And when I was looking through the window, looking at New York, I was so moved by humanity's desire for immortality-because that's what it is.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

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.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

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

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.

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.