Philippe Petit Quotes

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.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

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

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.

You're either living or you're dead.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

I always know I can die at any moment.

When you've been in life-threatening situations, you become aware that life is not for ever.

About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.

If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.