William Friedkin Quotes

Some people were born just so they could be buried.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

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

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

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

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

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

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

The only certainty life contains is death.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Some people live. Some people die.

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.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

Everyone dies. It's a question of where and how, that's all.

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

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

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.