Michael Haneke Quotes

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

I know that I am going to die, and I'm ready to do so.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

Birth was the death of him.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.