Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.

Life. Consider the alternative.

I love life more than I love death.

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

You should be as alive as you can, until you're totally dead!

He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.