Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

People who, whether they inhabit the desert or settled areas and cities, live a life of abundance and have all the good things to eat, die more quickly than others when a drought or famine comes upon them

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change....or die.

You're too important to just... die.

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Either I act or I die.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.

But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.