Pier Paolo Pasolini Quotes

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

Life is as serious a thing as death.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.