Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

The worst kind of decline is a slow decline—slow enough not to notice that you are in decline.

I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.

How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.