Paul Simon Quotes

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery in it, because it cannot die anymore. You think it has no mystery because life has disappeared? No, it has no mystery because now it cannot die anymore. Death has disappeared, and with death automatically life disappears. Life is only one of the ways of death's expression.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

What was the worst thing [making Twiligh]? Playing the part where you can't get hurt and you can't die because there's no framework. There are too many possibilities if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?