Existential Dying Reflections

Table of Contents

• Inevitability of Death
• Living with the Awareness of Death
• Death as Adventure or Transition
• Death as Equalizer
• Reflections on Life and Death
• Death and Legacy
• Existential Reflections
• Humor and Irony in Death
• Death in Context of Relationships
• Other

Inevitability of Death

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

No one escape death!

The number of people around you does not matter because you will surely die alone in the end.

No matter how careful we are, if we live long enough, eventually one of us will die. It is not a happy thought, but it is the truth. Such is the way of the world.

All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.

From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.

Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people.

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Still, in the end, we all die just the same.

Living with the Awareness of Death

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

As soon as we realize there is an end to life, we will begin to live well.

... we are all dying, all the time. Being born is stepping from the cliff's edge. The only question is what to do while falling.

Truth is...we all will die someday. None of our days are promised in anyway. But by choosing to live great, helping others along our way...will help brighten humanity each and everyday!

Sometimes life isn't about the end. It's not always about tomorrow and the day after that-what we achieve over the years and how we leave the world. Sometimes it's about today...Any of us could die tomorrow regardless of the horde. We could get sick or be injured or anything else. That's the risk we take waking up each morning and stepping outside.

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did we would do things differently. Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

Death as Adventure or Transition

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

In the end, we all die for what we believe in... mostly because we all die.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the day when all will be peace, harmony, light, joy, and life, it will come. And it is so that it comes that we are going to die.

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.

All is possible for those who dare to die!

Death as Equalizer

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

Everyone's dying, Milcah. Some people are just dying sooner than others.

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

There’s a bigger cause out there. It’s bigger than any of us here. But we stick together, all right? We stick together and look out for each other. Because you four are all I’ve got left. And I’m not going to see you die. Forever alive, all right? We’re not going to die."-Sirius Black

For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on.

To quote Sarah Connor: ‘You’re all dead already.’ You, your friends, your customers—all of you. You poisoned your own planet, destroyed its climate, defiled its ecosystem, and killed off all of its biodiversity.” He pointed at each of us. “You’re going to be extinct soon, too, by your hands. And you know it. That’s why most of you spend every second you can wired up to the OASIS. You’ve already given up, and now you’re all just waiting around to die.

we are born and we are already dying

Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just in a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

We are all going to die one day. Everything else, my friend, I am not sure.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Reflections on Life and Death

I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward.

Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your name.

When life comes to an end, we will take nothing with us.

Without hope, we are lifeless.

These have not the hope to die.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

Death and Legacy

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

How do people stand for this? How many people have to die before we rise up and say ‘enough is enough?

Either we die unto who we were, in order to move to the next stage, or we die through staying stuck, and suffer stasis and stultification.

Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your name.

Of course you're dying. We're all dying. Where the devil else do you think you're heading?

We know, we'll all die one day. Death is the only truth that supersedes any factsheets. Very few get that divine blessings to break the palisade of mortality and believe me we are the chosen few.

Let all live as they would die.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

Existential Reflections

Some of us would take our time, if we knew that we are rushing to our deaths.

If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.

If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.

The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.

It's great coming back here. We never say die.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

People say, "Well, we're all just going to die and go to heaven anyway, or Jesus is going to come back" or something. I don't feel like God wants us just to lay down and die just because that's going to happen. I think we should keep trying.

There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Humor and Irony in Death

Death! Death! We will not let you die. The people of the future will sing your name and your monstrosities.

I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

We are all dying of life.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Death in Context of Relationships

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

We're all going to die someday, Sasha. We can only live our lives the best way we can. I believe in family.

Until the day I die, I’ll be here for all people’s of this world and beyond.

I will be the cause of death for everyone I love.

We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.

We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye.

Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don’t know what happens next, afterward.

Other

Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.

This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. ...If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.

We shall live to die once more.

Everyone knows they are going to die on one single day. But everyone has hope that it will not be today. The hope is running us to live a life. But we are dying to give a life to hope itself, every single day.

The Mission is completed...this is why you die!

We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there’s a pecking order in that, don’t you?

That's all any of us have in the end, isn't it? there is death ahead of all of us. And so we live.

When you’re dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you’re not alone

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.

One of the Taliban spokesmen said they have thousands of men who look forward to death like Americans look forward to living, which is great because we can arrange that. We'll set them up with death, we'll continue living.

We are all going to die, sometimes even in the middle of a lease.

Not all of me shall die.

Everyone dies. The don’t all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I’ve seen the Above. At least I’ve known True.

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