Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

Either things grow and change or they die.

One withers, another grows.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that's just something you have to accept.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

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

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

The dead can't change, but you can.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.