Robert Schumann Quotes

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

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.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

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

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

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

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

When you reach your peak it's time to die.

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

He that begins to live, begins to die.

We die, because we live.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.