Nora Ephron Quotes

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

We die, because we live.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

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.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.