Mario Van Peebles Quotes

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

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

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

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

To live is to die.

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.

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

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Death is a very important part of life.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

Everything that gets born dies.