Death Quote by Alain de Botton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”

“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”

“The start receives such disproportionate attention because it isn't deemed to be just one phase among many; for the Romantic, it contains in a concentrated form everything significant about love as a whole. Which is why, in so many love stories, there is simply nothing else for the narrator to do with a couple after they have triumphed over a range of initial obstacles other than to consign them to an ill-defined contented future--or kill them off. What we typically call love is only the start of love.”

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

“..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;”

“Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.”

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know.”

“Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.”

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”

“I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.”