Rick Baker Quotes

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you're going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you're not going to live that long.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.

Death is an absolute marvel.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

We're all going to die.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

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

Mortality defines the human condition.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.