Edward Young Quotes

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

The biggest fear that everybody has is dying. Not to get too meta on you, but I think every fear that people are trying to work out is really like I'm going to die and no one is going to care, and it doesn't matter because God might not exist. That's what people are trying to figure out. I wish we all had one fear so we could think about it together and figure out a solution, but we're all doing different things.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.