Maurizio Cattelan Quotes

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.

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

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

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

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

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

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

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 will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

I always know I can die at any moment.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

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.

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

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

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.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

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.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.