Gus Van Sant Quotes

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

Death is a very important part of life.

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.