James Clavell Quotes

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

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

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.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

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

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.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Western Humanism does not ask the fundamental questions about the meaning and limits of personal experience. Humsniists leave aside the mysteries of contingency and transitoriness, for the certainties of research, production, consumption.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function - like death. Life tells you a lot about what death is, not what people say it is.

To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.