Laird Barron Quotes

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Light itself is a revelation.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

The human condition itself inspires me.

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

There's no victory-condition for being human.