Aldous Huxley Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Death, Nature

  Do What You Will (1929) "Wordsworth in the Tropics"

• Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Dying, Decay

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

• Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Dying, Lasts

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Time Must Have a Stop”, p.181, Random House

• One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Suicide, Unique

• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Ambition, Frustration

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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