Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

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

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

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

I've never worried about life's big questions.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

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

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

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

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?