Simon McBurney Quotes

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.

It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Time stays, we go.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

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

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

Time moves on for everyone.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Our time on Earth is so random.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?