Alexander McQueen Quotes

We die, because we live.

I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.

Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

To live is to die.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

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

Our life is made by the death of others.

All I can say is, death is a part of life.

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

In my end is my beginning.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.