Salman Rushdie Quotes

Only dead people need loud music, you know.

People dance at any age.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

I want to dance. I want to live.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

Security is for cadavers.

A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have democracy, and it's being threatened.

Some people live. Some people die.

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent.

When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.