Andy Warhol Quotes

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

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.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think that's worth exploring. I don't know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

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

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that?

Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.