mortality theme Quotes

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

We are fastened to a dying animal.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

I argued strongly to the American publisher that 'Reality Hunger' should come out first. They thought that 'The Thing About Life' would have more appeal because it's on a broader topic; it's about mortality rather than art.

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

I pressed her thigh and death smiled

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run

All perishable is but an allegory.

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.