Death Drive Quotes

Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

And everybody has the motivation to be that killer.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

I don't really buy the death-drive thing too literally; it feels overly neat and convenient. But I am suspicious of fighting back being the dominant model for cinematic conflict and personal conflict and political conflict.

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.