John Updike Quotes

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

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.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

Death is an absolute marvel.

We are all terminal.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Death is a very important part of life.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.

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.

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

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

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

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

Life will go on - until it doesn't.

All us got a due date. All us got a death sentence. One day, we gonna die.

We are mortals, we will die one day.

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

In the end, living is defined by dying.