Jonathan Tucker Quotes

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

Life is an incurable disease.

This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

This world's a bubble.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.