David Cronenberg Quotes

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.

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

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

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

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

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

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Mortality defines the human condition.

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

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

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

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.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

Life, the permission to know death.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.