Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.