Takashi Miike Quotes

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

I write about living, not dying.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look.

Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love