William Hurt Quotes

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

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

My father passed away at, like, 87.

As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won’t be the same as the one we’ve got now, but it’ll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don’t make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don’t you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

Art is eternal, but life is short.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.