life-and-death quotes

"This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films."

Abbas Kiarostami

Earthquakes Issues Life And Death

"Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new."

Life And Death Shining Rebirth

"Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder."

Agatha Christie

Hands Clothes Life And Death

"I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death."

Life And Death Enjoy Climbs

"A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?"

Differences Numbers Life And Death

"If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me."

Talking Life And Death Gone

"We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'"

Real Past Life And Death

"Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil."

Life And Death Evil Unity

"There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING."

Albert Einstein

Eye Life And Death Imperfection

"There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being."

Albert Einstein

Moving Destiny Life And Death

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