Life And Death Quotes - Page 15

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

We are God's partners in matters of life and death.

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always feel me and think of me. I could see that, but there was no longer anything I could do. Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it, the story of my life and death, was hers if she chose tot ell it, even to one person at a time.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.