Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

Death is a very important part of life.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

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

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

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.

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

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

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

To live is to die.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

We die only once, and for such a long time.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

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.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

I always know I can die at any moment.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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

We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.