Harold Brodkey Quotes

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!

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

Everything has an end.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

Sooner or later everything has to come to an end.

You think about it sometimes. I try not to think about it too much. You think about you can't play forever.

Everything comes to an end.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Everyone is going to die.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

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

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.