Douglas Kennedy Quotes

Life is such a tragicomedy.

Life at best is bittersweet.

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

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

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.

The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!

I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

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

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

I think it's scary to be alive, but also exhilarating and joyful.

Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.

Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.