Joseph Campbell Quotes

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

Life is a plant that grows out of death.

Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

He not busy being born is busy dying.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

In my end is my beginning.

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.

I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

Death is the mother of forms.

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

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?

I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?