George Saunders Quotes

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

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

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.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

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

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.