Death Quotes

“The fact that we die is what makes what we do and who we do it with matter.”
― Todd May, Death

“I would like to make a bold claim right here at the outset: the fact that we die is the most important fact about us. There is nothing that has more weight in our lives.”
― Todd May, Death

“The best way to treat the watch, then, is to wear it.”
― Todd May, Death

“Death is the ultimate source of both the tragedy and the beauty of a human life. Moreover, death's tragedy is the source of life's beauty and vice versa. Although it is better that we are mortal, it is nevertheless a shame that we have to die. To die brings to a pointless end the involvements that make up our lives. And yet without that pointless end those involvements themselves might have no point. They would only be part of the endless passing show. They would be unable to touch us. That is to say, without the beauty of the moments that we are granted in this life, our death would be no tragedy; and without the tragedy of death, those moments would have no beauty. In this sense, as in the other senses we have discussed, death is the deepest and most important fact about us. To be human is to die and, more importantly, to know that one will die throughout one's life, even when (or especially when) we go to great lengths to avoid that knowledge.”
― Todd May , Death

“از یک سو برای بسیاری از بیخداهای پروپاقرص، شرطبندی بلز پاسکال شرطبندی بدی نیست. پاسکال فیلسوف فرانسوی بود که میگفت باید طوری عمل کنیم که انگار خدا وجود دارد، زیرا اگر خدا وجود نداشته باشد با این کار چیزی از دست نیمدهیم اما اگر خدا وجود داشته باشد، با بی‌اعتقادی به او خیلی ضرر میکنیم.”
― Todd May, Death

“همه ما بالاخره یک روز آینده‌ای را که برای خودمان در ذهن ترسیم کرده بودیم، رها می کنیم: نمی‌توانیم همزمان دو مسیر حرف‌ای متمایز را دنبال کنیم؛ بالاخره مجبوریم نانی سر سفره‌مان بیاوریم؛ خیلی از ما در مسیری می‌افتیم که پیش‌بینی نمی‌کردیم.”
― Todd May, Death