Life's Inevitability Quotes

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

I think that storytelling, at its essence, allows us to feel like we all suffer the same insanity or a similar insanity of existence: that nobody escapes scot-free. We're all going to wind up - at the best-case scenario - 80, 85, 90, broken, in pain, and feeling like it was all a dream and not really understanding the point of any of it.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.

Life is a horizontal fall.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.