Theodor Reik Quotes

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

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

We are mortals, we will die one day.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

To live is to die.

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

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

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

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.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

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

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.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

Death does determine life.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

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