James MacArthur Quotes

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Souls are designed to fit inside a body.

You live as long as you dance.

If there's one thing I don't have, it's an insular bone.

I'm inspired by breath, by the human body - by so many things.

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?

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

If sexuality means saying yes to life, then you should be able to remain sexual until the day you die.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.