John Hodgman Quotes

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

To have died once is enough.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

I don't think the end of the world is the end of the world.

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

I can't die but once.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

If one wants to talk about the end of the world, the apocalypse, you're talking about the world itself. It's not Southern California breaking into the sea. The story is global, and it requires that kind of approach.

Any way you want to slice it, the thing about the apocalypse is, since the beginning of time, it's the projection of mankind's worst fear. The day that, as a race, our number is up.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

Eschatological fears are an ancient human concern. The Romans expected the world to end in 634 B.C. owing to a prophecy involving twelve eagles, while the early Christians anticipated the Final Judgment in their own lifetimes. Pope Sylvester II thought A.D. 1000 would be the last year, a view updated for the modern age by the Millennium bug.