Damien Hirst Quotes

I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of preparing can really ready us, in a meaningful way, for the great void that awaits us all.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Blood and death. That moves me.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.