Antonya Nelson Quotes

Death is an absolute marvel.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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

The only certainty life contains is death.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Today will die tomorrow.

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.

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

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.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

The living are just the dead on holiday

Remember that life is short and death is long.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?