Ingmar Bergman Quotes

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

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've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Death is an art, you know.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Denial of death at some point becomes a delusion.

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

For me, no matter what movie I make, no matter what the genre or the budget, they all have the same theme at their core: fear of death and happiness about living.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?