Annette Funicello Quotes

You're never promised your next breath.

I always know I can die at any moment.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.

I'm not fixated on death but I know tomorrows are not guaranteed.

Have fun. I don't kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn't change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that's why I try not to take any of what's happened too seriously.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

There is no safety this side of the grave

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

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

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Mortality defines the human condition.