Bruce Sterling Quotes

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

The human condition itself inspires me.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

I'm totally human.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

Everybody's human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

I am human, all too bloody human.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.