Samuel Butler Quotes

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.

I just don't really think about death.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

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

We see death constantly on film.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

Death does determine life.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

To have died once is enough.

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.

I'm not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that's inevitable?

When you dead, you dead.

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

Death is an absolute marvel.