Aleister Crowley Quotes

Where all life dies death lives.

In living we die, in dying we live.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

Death is just a continuation of life.

Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than birth. When they say it's the end of everything they don't seem to recognize that we came from somewhere and it would be very, very strange indeed to suppose that we're not going somewhere.

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

If millions are born millions must die.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.