Leonora Carrington Quotes

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

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.

Death is a very important part of life.

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

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

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.

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

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.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.