Danny Elfman Quotes

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

No one gets out of here alive.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Life is short, death is forever

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.