John Cleese Quotes

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

'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'.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

What is life about? Two things: love and death.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

The meaning of life is that it stops.

We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them.

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

Some people were born just so they could be buried.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.