Janet Fitch Quotes

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

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.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

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.

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.

I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.