Sebastian Lelio Quotes

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

The goal of all life is death.

Death is a very important part of life.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

Death has a way of making us all stop and think about life.

I think that the older I get, the more I play, you realise when it's your time.

Death is an absolute marvel.

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

Death is the final wake-up call.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Birth was the death of him.